Ahmad Shamlou

Ahmad Shamlou was born in Tehran in December 1925, the only son of an officer whose postings took the family across the country. He left school for journalism and was imprisoned by the Allies from 1942, then again after the coup of 1953. He signed Bamdad, translated Lorca and devoted decades to the Book of the Street, a collection of popular speech. Married in 1964 to Aida Sarkisian, diabetic, his leg amputated in 1997, he died on 23 July 2000 and was buried at Karaj.

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• Poetryهوای تازهAhmad Shamlou · 1957Literature