Nader Naderpour

Nader Naderpour , Persian نادر نادرپور, DMG Nāder-e Nāderpūr , (born June 6, 1929 in Tehran , † February 18, 2000 in Los Angeles ) was an Iranian-American writer and poet.

Life

Born into an artistically and culturally active family, Nader was sent to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1950 after high school and high school in Iran to study literature in France .

After returning to Iran, Nader Naderpour worked in the Ministry of Art and Culture and was editor of the monthly magazine Honar va Mardom (Art and People).

In 1964 Nader Naderpour went to Rome to study Italian literature. He married Shahla Hirbod in 1957. The marriage produced a daughter. The couple separated in 1961. When Iran's writers organized themselves into a professional association in 1968, Nader Naderpour was one of the founding members. After returning to Iran in 1971, Nader Naderpour headed the Department of Contemporary Literature ( Persian گروه ادب امروز, DMG Gorūh-e adab-e emrūz ) of the state radio and television in addition to his editorial work for the magazine Namayesh (theater).

From Honar va Mardom (art and folk) a cultural program had become organized in the framework of weekly live concerts in the parks of Tehran radio and television and was broadcast nationwide.

Since 1940 Nader Naderpour published poems. He continued to write and publish poetry while working for the Ministry of Art and Culture and for the state radio.

After the Islamic Revolution , Nader Naderpour emigrated to France in 1980. In 1984 he married Jaleh Bassiri, to whom he dedicated his last volume of poetry. In 1987 he moved to California in the USA. There he taught at UCLA and UC Berkeley .

Nader Naderpour died on February 18, 2000. He is buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles . After his death, his widow set up the Naderpour Foundation in his memory.

reception

Nader Naderpour is considered a classic modern Iranian poet. He published a total of nine volumes of poetry, excerpts of which were translated into English, French, German and Italian. His language is pictorially romantic and deeply interwoven with the texture of Iranian literature.

Works

Eyes and Hands ( eyes and hands ), 1954
Daughter of the Cup , 1955
The Grape Poem , 1958
Collyrium of the Sun ( The eye shadow of the sun ), 1960
Not Plant and Stone, But Fire ( non-plant nor stone, but fire ), 1978
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous , 1978
The Last Supper ( The Last Supper ), 1978
False Dawn , University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 1982
Blood and Ash , 1989
Earth and Time , 1996.

literature

Reza Aslan : Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Words without borders. New York and London 2011, p. 633
Farhad Mafie: Nader Naderpour (1929-2000). Iranian poet, thinker, patriot . Mellen, Lewiston, NY 2003, ISBN 0-7734-68404 .
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. 24 f. and 167

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personal data
SURNAME	Naderpour, Nader
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Iranian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tehran
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 2000
Place of death	los Angeles