Nader Naderpour
Nader Naderpour (Persian: نادر نادرپور; June 6, 1929 – February 18, 2000) was an Iranian poet.
Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry (in Persian: She’r-e Now), Ali Esfandiari aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader Naderpour, Forough Farrokhzad, Mehdi Akhavan Saless, Sohrab Sepehri, Fereydoon Moshiri, Siavash Kasrai, Ahmad Shamlu, Hushang Ebtehaj, and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani are considered to be the most famous, skillful, and professional.
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Certainly many have said and written (and quite correctly) that Naderpour is the greatest pictorial creator in Persian poetry in recent times, and this is not an insignificant point…… more
Naderpour published his first poems in 1940s and completed four collections by 1970s. In 1964, he went to Rome where he studied Italian language and literature….. more
In 1987, he moved to California. During his residence in the United States, Naderpour gave several speeches and lectures at Harvard University, Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. He was an imagist, a musician and a wordsmith in one. A classic poet living in a modern world with a modern style. He was regarded as one of the leaders of the movement of “New Poetry” in Iran and among other Persian speakers in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan….. more
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Nader Naderpour (June 6, 1929 – February 18, 2000) Born in Tehran and receiving his early education in Europe, Nader Naderpour returned to Iran to publish his first collection of poetry in the 1940s. In the later 1960’s, he helped found “The Association of Writers of Iran” and directed the literature department of the Iranian National Radio and Television Department… more