Nima Yushij

Ali Esfandiari, who took the name Nima Yushij, was born around 1896 in Yush, in the mountains of Mazandaran, the eldest son of a landowning herder and a mother of Georgian origin. The village cleric taught him to read; at twelve he followed his family to Tehran and entered the Saint-Louis college, run by French missionaries, which he left in 1917. A minor clerk in the archives of the Ministry of Finance, then a schoolteacher in the North, in 1938 he joined the music department of Public Instruction, was briefly arrested after the coup d'état of 1953 and died in Tehran in 1960.

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• PoetryافسانهNima Yushij · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature