List of Persian writers
This list includes writers and poets who have written works in the Persian language . It is arranged chronologically by year of birth, and includes those both in modern states , Iran , Afghanistan , Tajikistan , where Persian is in one of its varieties now official language, as well as in other countries of the region front , Central and South Asia have lived or live.
Before the Islamic period
- Zarathustra (زرتشت), ancient Iranian prophet and author of the Avestian Gathas (around 1200 BC)
- Mani (مانی), Central Iranian religious leader and founder of Manichaeism (approx. 210-276)
- To Shihkao , Parthian translator.
Beginning of the Islamic age until the 8th century
Morteza Motahhari lists the names of dozen of Iranians who contributed to the creation of Arabic, Persian or Pahlavi literature during the Umayyad rule in Iran. These include:
- Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa (ابن مقفع)
- Buchari (بخاری)
- Sibawayh (سیبویه)
- Dinawari (دینوری)
- Baladhuri (بلاذری)
- Naubakht (نوبخت)
9th century
- Rudaki (رودکی) - first poet of the New Persian language
- Mansur al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج)
- Ibn Chafif (ابن خفیف)
10th century
- Firdausi (فردوسی), poets ( 925 - 1020 )
- Abusaeid Abolkheir (ابوسعید ابوالخیر)
- Rudaki (رودکی)
- Abu Mansur Daqiqi (ابومنصور دقیقی)
- Abu l-Fadl Baihaqi (ابوالفضل بیهقی), historian
- Unsuri (عنصری)
- Rabi'ah Quzdari (ربیعه قزداری) - the first female poet of neo-Persian literature
- Asjadi (عسجدی)
- Kisai Marvazi (کسائی مروزی)
- Abu Shakur Balchi (ابوشکور بلخی)
- Ayyuqi (عیوقی)
11th century
- Asad Gorgani
- Asjadi
- Firdausi , Poet ( 925 - 1020 )
- Omar Chayyām , poet ( 1048 - 1131 )
- Hudschwiri (d. 1073 )
- Abusaeid Abolkheir
- Sanai Ghaznavi
- Abd l-Qadir Jilani
- Manuchihri
- Nasreddin
- Sanaayi
- Abu l-Fadl Baihaqi , historian
- Nāsir-i Chusrau , traveler and poet
- Farruchi Sistani (فرخی سيستانی), poet
- Baba Tahir Oryan
- Abu al-Faraj Runi
- Nizam al-Mulk
- Mu'izzi
- Azraqi
- Masoud Sa'd Salman
- Uthman Muchtari
- Qatran Tabrizi
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Sādi Tusi
- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
- Muhammad Ghazali
- ʿAbdallāh al-Ansārī
12th Century
- Adib Sabir
- Am'aq
- Vari
- Fariduddin Attar , poet (approx. 1136–1220 or 1221 )
- Omar Khayyám , poet ( 1048 - 1131 )
- Nezami , poet ( 1141 - 1209 )
- Sheikh Ruzbehan
- ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077 or 1078– 1166 )
- Chaqani
- Sanaayi
- Muhammad Aufi
- Falaki Shirvani
- Hassan Ghaznavi , poet
- Sanai Ghaznavi , poet
- Mu'izzi
- Uthman Muchtari
- Mahsati , poetess
- Rashid al-Din Vatvat
- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
13th Century
- Fariduddin Attar , poet (approx. 1130 – approx. 1230)
- Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi , poet ( 1207 - 1273 )
- Saadi , poet (approx. 1190–1283 or 1291)
- Rashid ad-Din , ( 1247 - 1318 )
- Amir Choswawi Dehlawi
- Shams-e Tabrizi
- Sheikh Ruzbehan
- Zahed Gilani
- Khwaju Kermani
- Mahmud Shabistari
- Nasreddin
- Najmeddin Razi
- Muhammad Aufi
- Qazi Beiza'i
- Auhadi of Maragheh
- Auhaduddin Kermani
- Ghiyathu'd-Din
- Ibn-i-Yamin
- Ata al-Mulk Juwaini
14th Century
- Hafez , poet (* approx. 1310 - 1325 )
- Rashid ad-Din , ( 1247 - 1318 )
- Amir Chusrau Dehlawi , court poet and important chronicler for the Sultanate of Delhi .
- Khwaju Kermani
- Mahmoud Shabestari
- Nasreddin
- Obeid Zâkâni
- Maulana Shahin Shirazi
- Junayd Shirazi
- Kamal ad-Din Isfahani
- Jamal ad-Din Isfahani
- Auhadi from Maragheh
- Ghiyath ad-Din
15th century
- Jami , poet ( 1414 - 1492 )
- Mir ʿAli Schir Nawāʾi (Nizam ud-Din Ali Schir Heravi Nava'i ), poet ( 1441 - 1501 )
16th Century
- Urfi
- Talib Amoli
- Faizi Fayyâzi, Chancellor, chronicler and court poet of the Indian Grand Mogul Akbar I.
- Zuhuri, court poet of the Adil Shahis of Bijapur
17th century
- Ghanī Kashmīrī (died 1668)
- Mirzā Muhammad Alī Sā'ib (around 1595 - 1669 )
- Abul Ma'ānī Abdul Qādir Bedil ( 1642 - 1720 )
- Zeb-un-Nissā Machfī ( 1637 - 1702 , daughter of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb )
18th century
- Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی)
- Hatef Esfehani , poet (هاتف اصفهانی)
19th century
- Adib-ol-mamalek-e Farahani
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar
- Iradsch Mirza
- Farrokhi Yazdi
- Mirzadeh Eshghi , also: Mohammad Reza Mirzadeh'e Eschghi (1893–1924)
- Aref Qazvini , also: Mirza Abolghassem Aref'e Ghazwini (1882–1934)
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Although he became famous as an Urdu poet, he valued his Persian poems more himself.)
- Hassan Roshdie
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat , poet and historian
- Ebrahim Poordavood , Ancient Languages, Avesta
- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
20th century until today
- Ali Mohammad Afghani (علی محمد افغانی)
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour
- Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi (احمد رضا احمدی)
- Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad (جلال آل احمد)
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh , poet, novelist
- Ahmad Allahyari , poet, journalist
- Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی)
- Reza Amirkhani (رضا امیرخانی)
- Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
- Sadegh Angha (صادق عنقا), Sufi master, poet and scholar
- Nader Angha (نادر عنقا), Sufi master, poet and scholar
- Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (محمد تقی بهار)
- Sayed Elan Bahar , from Afghanistan
- Reza Baraheni (* 1935), English scholar , poet, essayist and translator
- Massoud Behnoud (مسعود بهنود), journalist
- Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی)
- Sadegh Choubak (صادق چوبک)
- Hamid Dabashi , scholar and cultural critic
- Simin Dāneschwar (سیمین دانشور)
- Najaf Daryabandari (نجف دريابندری), translator
- Ali Akbar Dehchoda , linguist (linguist) and journalist
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولت آبادی)
- Hushang Ebtehaj
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Anahita Firouz , author of The Hidden Garden
- Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
- Soleiman Haim
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat , poet and historian
- Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
- Arash Hejazi (آرش حجازی), essayist and translator
- Mohammad Hejazi , novelist and screenwriter
- Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال) from Lahore, most important Muslim poet of the Indian independence movement and, after his death, national poet of Pakistan . Also wrote in Urdu .
- Mohsen Jamal
- Mohammad Ali Jamalzade (محمد علی جمالزاده)
- Taraneh Javanbakht (ترانه جوانبخت), poet
- Hasan Husseini
- Mohsen Kadivar (محسن کدیور), theologian
- Ahmad Kamyabi Mask (احمد کامیابی مسک)
- Shahram Karimi , poet
- Ahmad Kasravi (احمد کسروی)
- Esmail Khoi (اسماعیل خویی)
- Emad Khorasani (عماد خراسانی)
- Mahmud Kianush (محمود کیانوش)
- Zabihollah Mansoori , translator (ذبیح الله منصوری)
- Iradsch Mirza (ایرج میرزا)
- Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی)
- Mohammad Mokhtari (محمد مختاری)
- Gholamhossein Mosahab , encyclopaedist (غلامحسین مصاحب)
- Morteza Motahhari , theologian (مرتضی مطهری)
- Rahi Mo'ayyeri , poet (رهی معیری)
- Ebrahim Nabavi , satirist (ابراهیم نبوی)
- Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
- Azar Nafisi (آذر نفیسی)
- Said Nafisi , scholar and poet
- Khosro Naghed (خسرو ناقد), translator [1]
- Majid M. Naini , translator, speaker [2]
- Ehsan Naraghi , scholar, sociologist
- Saadat Noury , poet & journalist (ﻯﺮ ﻮﻧ ﺖ ﺩ ﺎﻌﺴ)
- Parwin Pazwak , from Afghanistan
- Iraj Pezeshkzad
- Yar-Ali Pour-Moghaddam , screenwriter
- Shahrnush Parsipur , novelist.
- Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
- Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
- Iraj Rahmani , novelist (ايرج رحمانی)
- Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
- Moniro Ravanipur , narrator
- Yasmina Reza
- Hassan Roshdie
- Bahraam Saadeqi
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Gholamhossein Sa'edi
- Leila Sarahat Roschani , from Afghanistan
- Marjane Satrapi , novelist
- Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
- Mohammad Reza Schafi'i Kadkani (محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی), poet
- Ali Schariati , sociologist and theologian
- Dariush Shayegan
- Mahdi Shojaii (مهدی شجاعی)
- Daryush Shokof
- Abdolkarim Sorusch , philosopher
- Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi , poet
- Goli Taraghghi
- Fereidoon Tavallali
- Bozorgmehr Vaziri , poet, journalist, scholar, Christian evangelist
- Farrokhi Yazdi (فرخی یزدی)
- Gul Mohammed Zhowandai , from Afghanistan
- Kalimollah Tavahhodi
- Nahid Bagheri goldsmith (ناهید باقری - گلداشمید)
- Ahmadreza Ahmadi (احمدرضا احمدی)
- Mehdi Achawan Sales (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
- Yahya Alavi fard (یحیی علوی فرد)
- Ahmad Allahyari (احمد اللهياری)
- Nader Angha (نادر عنقا)
- Sadegh Angha (صادق عنقا)
- Massoud Atai (مسعود عطايی)
- Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی)
- Pezhman Bakhtiari , (پژمان بختیاری)
- Simin Behbahani
- Ustad Abdul Haq Betāb , from Afghanistan
- Hushang Ebtehadsch (HA Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
- Mirzade Eshghi (میرزاده عشقی)
- Parvin E'tesami
- Forugh Farrochzad (فروغ فرخزاد)
- Ata Gilani (عطا گیلانی)
- Jalaluddin Jalal (جلال الدین جلال), from Afghanistan
- Siavash Kasraie (سیاوش کسرایی)
- Khalilollah Khalili , from Afghanistan
- Hadi Khorsandi (هادی خرسندی)
- Abolghasem Lahouti (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
- Shams Langeroodi (شمس لنگرودی)
- Meher Baba (مهربابا)
- Shahriar Mandanipour (شهریار مندنی پور)
- Mirza-Agha Asgari (Mani) (میرزاآقا عسگری - مانی)
- Hossein Monzavi (حسین منزوی)
- Hamid Mosadegh (حمید مصدق)
- Fereydun Moschiri (فریدون مشیری)
- Granaz Mousavi (گراناز موسوی)
- Naanaam (نانام)
- Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
- Manouchehr Saadat Noury (منوچهر سعادت نوری)
- Behzad Pakrooh (بهزاد پاکروح)
- Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
- Heshmatolla Riazi
- Gholamreza Rouhani (غلامرضا روحانی)
- Yadollah Royaee (یدالله رویایی)
- Amir Sagharichi-Raha (امیر ساقریچی متخلص به رها)
- Mohammad Hossein Shahriar (محمد حسين شهريار)
- Ahmad Schamlou (احمد شاملو) [3]
- Bijan Taraghi (بیژن ترقی)
- Bozorgmehr Vaziri (بزرگمهر وزیری)
- Heydar Yaghma (حیدر یغما)
- Nima Youschidsch (نیما یوشیج)
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub (عبدالحسین زرین کوب)
- Nadia Anjuman , from Afghanistan
- Sa'aduddin Ansari , from Afghanistan
- Hanzala-e Badghis , from Afghanistan
- Abul-Faizi Hazrat, from Afghanistan
- Razeq Faani , from Afghanistan
- Kahi-e-Kabul, from Afghanistan
- Aminullah Khurasani, from Afghanistan
- Youssof Kohzad , from Afghanistan
- Mehrdel Khan Mashriqi, from Afghanistan
- Ghulam Muhammad Ghubar , from Afghanistan
- Bibi Mukhfi -e-Badakhshani, from Afghanistan
- Latif Nazemi , from Afghanistan
- Mahmud Tarzi , from Afghanistan
- Spôjmaï Zariâb , from Afghanistan, short story writer
See also
- Alphabetical list of Iranian writers . Limited to Iran.