![]() ![]() ![]() His voluminous Ketab-e Koucheh ( The Book of the Allies) is a major contribution to understanding Iranian folkloric beliefs and language. He has also written and translated numerous articles and books on a spectrum of subjects, from political to literary. He is an engaged poet in the sense that his poetry addresses socio-political issues of his time, with a prophetic emphasize on Liberty and Human Rights. It is said that you cannot find a literate household in Iran where there is none of his poetry books available. ![]() He is considered as the founder of Persian blank poetry. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete unprecedented in Persian poetry before him. Shamlou s poetry is complex, yet his imagery-which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems - is simple. Language: Farsi with English subtitles.Īhmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty (1999), Director: Moslem Mansouri, Running time: 62 minutes.Īhmad Shamlou (DecemJuly 24, 2000) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. This portrait of a well-loved and incredibly talented writer, later overlooked as anti-revolutionary, attests to the extreme difficulties often faced by Iranian writers. Mahmoud testifies eloquently to all these concerns in lengthy, and moving, on-camera interviews. His writing reflects his political engagement, his concern for the poor and the working class, and his love for his native region of Khuzestan. Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist (2004), Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou, Running time: 60 minutes.Īhmad Mahmoud (1931-2002) was a leading Iranian novelist who, over his fifty-year career, published nine short story collections and six novels, including The Native Boy (1972), The Strangers (1972) and The Neighbors (1974). ![]()
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