Bijan Elahi
Bijan Elahi (Persian: بیژن الهی; pronounced [biː’ʒæn elɑː’hiː]; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator.[1] He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist poetry movement in Iran called The Other Poetry… more
Bijan Elahi was the only child born into the affluent family of ʿAli Moḥammad and Qodsi Elahi. He abandoned his secondary education at Alborz College, during his senior year…more
Bijan Elahi was born in 1945 to a wealthy family in Tehran. Elahi studied painting under the guidance of the Iranian painter Javad Hamidi… more
July 7th marks the birthday of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), a modernist, experimental poet who has posthumously acquired a position in Persian modern poetry that only a few canonical poets, like Nima Youshij… more
Bijan Elahi (July 7, 1945 – Dec 1, 2010) was a modernist poet and a prolific translator of T.S. Eliot, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Michaux, Friedrich Hölderlin, and many other major poets. He was both the founder and the most important… more