Ahmad Schamlou

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Ahmad Schamlou

Ahmad Schamlou ( English Ahmad Shamlou , Persian احمد شاملو Ahmad Schāmlu , DMG Aḥmad Šāmlū ), pseudonym: A. Bamdad ( Persian الف. بامداد, 'A. Morgen ') (born December 12, 1925 in Tehran ; † July 24, 2000 in Karaj ) was a Persian poet who received the Stig Dagerman Prize in 1999 .

Life

After several political imprisonments, he left Iran in December 1976. He returned there in February 1979 after the overthrow of the Shah regime.

Act

He particularly developed modern Persian poetry and, above all, the genre known as white poetry .

He also translates mainly poetry (e.g. works by Federico García Lorca and Jacques Prévert and Margot Bickel ) and especially the story The Little Prince into Persian.

Works (selection of poetry books)

  • Forgotten Melodies (1948)
  • Steel and Emotion (1954)
  • Fresh Air ( Fresh Air ), Tehran 1958
  • Garden of Mirrors (1961)
  • Aida in the Mirror (1965)
  • Aida, Tree, Dagger, and Memories (1966)
  • Phoenix in the Rain (1967)
  • Dust Elegies (1970)
  • Blossoming in the Fog (1971)
  • Abraham in the Fire (1973)
  • Dagger in the Dish ( dagger on the plate ), Tehran 1977
  • Tale of Mother Sea's Daughters (1978)

literature

  • Aresumand-Gilandehi, Kiumars: Johannes Bobrowski and Aḥmad Šāmlū. A comparison of characteristics of poetic engagement . Verlag Hans Schiler, 2017. ISBN 978-3-89930-115-1
  • For a smile. An interview with Bahman Nirumand . In: Lettre International, LI 97, summer 2012
  • Kurt Scharf: “You can no longer bear the silence on your lips, you country!” On contemporary Persian poetry. die horen 26 (1981), pp. 9-32; P. 12 f., 16-18 and 168 (with German first publications, translated by Kurt Scharf)

Web links

Commons : Ahmad Shamlu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shāmlū, Ahmad, شاملو, احمد .: Majmoo ' ah-yi AŞ Ār . Chāp-i chahārum edition. Tihrān, ISBN 964-6174-26-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Schamlou, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamdad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2000
Place of death Karaj