Fereydoon Moshiri (
Persian: فریدون مشیری; September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000) was one of the prominent contemporary
Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the
Persian poem.[1]
A selection of his poems has been translated into English entitled With All my Tears by Ali Salami. Some of his other published works are as follows:
1957, Gonah-e Darya (The Sin of the Sea)
1958, Nayafteh (Undiscovered)
1960, Abr (The Cloud)
1970, Parvaz Ba Khorshid (Flying With the Sun)
1978, Bahar ra Bavar Kon (Believe the Spring)
1988, Ah Baran (Oh, the Rain)
2001, Ta Sobh-e Tabnak-e Ahura'ii (Until the Bright of Ahuric Dawn)
Last years
Fereydoon Moshiri had been suffering from
leukaemia and
kidney failure for five years and died in "Tehran Clinic" hospital on October 24, 2000, at the age of 74.[1]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.