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Yadollah Maftun Amini

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Nationality
  
Iranian

Years active
  
1957-


Name
  
Yadollah Amini

Role
  
Poet

Born
  
June 12, 1926 (age 97) (
1926-06-12
)
Shahindezh, near Tabriz

Yadollah Maftun Amini (Persian: یدالله مفتون امینی‎‎; born June 12, 1926) is an Iranian poet.

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Early life

Yadollah Amini with literature nickname of Maftun was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan at northwest of Iran. He did his early education up to end of highschool in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in the Tehran University's Faculty of Law.

Literature works

Maftun started Persian Poetry with classic style, but gradually proceed to modern and no rhythmic Persian Poetry in 1980s. Other than poems in Persian Maftun has poems in his mother language, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan is his first Azerbaijani poetry collection of Maftun. Major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgias.

Works

  • Poem collections
  • Ashiqli Karvan (Karavan of Ashiqs (singers)), 1960s, Tabriz
  • Anarestan (Pomegranate Garden), 1967, Tabriz, Ebn-e-sina Publishers
  • Ashiqli Karvan (Camel Train), 1979
  • Nahang ya Mowj (Wale or Tide), Selections of Kulak and Anarestan (1979, Tehran)
  • Fasl-e-Penhan (Hidden Season), Poem selections
  • Man va Khazan-e-toh (Me and Your Fall), 2006, Amrud Publishers
  • Shab-e-hazar-o-doh (Night of One Thousand and Two), (Includes a part in Azeri Turkish),

    • References

    Yadollah Maftun Amini Wikipedia
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