Nader Naderpour

Nader Naderpour was born in Tehran on 6 June 1929, the eldest of six children; his father, a painter and man of letters, a descendant of Nader Shah, taught him Persian poetry and French at an early age, and his mother played the tar. After a spell in the Tudeh Party, which he left in 1948, he studied French language and literature at the Sorbonne from 1950. He then contributed to the journals of the Ministry of Arts and Culture, studied Italian at Perugia and Rome, was elected in 1968 to the first board of the Writers' Association of Iran, ran a literary circle on television, went into exile in 1980 and died in Los Angeles on 18 February 2000.

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• Poetryسرمه خورشیدNader Naderpour · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature