Fereydoon Moshiri

{{Short description|Persian poet}}

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|name = Fereydoon Moshiri
فریدون مشیری

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|9|21}}

|birth_place = Tehran, Iran

|death_date = {{death date and age|2000|10|24|1926|9|21}}

|death_place = Tehran, Iran

|occupation = Poet

|nationality = Iranian

|relatives = Ebrahim Moshiri Afshar {{small|(father)}}

|spouse = Eghbal Akhavan-Zanjani {{small|(1955–2000, his death)}}

|children = Bahar
Babak

|website = [http://www.fereydoonmoshiri.org/ Official website of Fereydoon Moshiri]

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Fereydoon Moshiri (September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000; {{langx|fa|فریدون مشیری}}) was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.{{Cite web|url=http://ww25.fereydoonmoshiri.org/fmepage01.htm|access-date=2020-07-03|website=ww25.fereydoonmoshiri.org}}

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.

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