سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri

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born

October 07, 1928

died

April 21, 1980

gender

male

place of birth

kashan, Iran, Islamic Republic of

genre

Poetry

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Sohrab was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter. He is considered one of the five most famous modern Persian (Iranian) poets who have practiced "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme). Other practitioners of this form were Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad, all of whom now dead.
Sohrab Sepehri is also one of Iran's foremost modernist painters.
Sepehri died in Pars hospital in Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loved nature and refers to it frequently.
His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Russian.

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avg rating: 3.90 | 3,320 ratings | 146 reviews | 13 distinct works | 62 fans

	هشت کتاب by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.94 — 1,738 ratings — published 1363 10 editions	my rating:
	اتاق آبی / the Blue Room and two other writings by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.66 — 318 ratings — published 1369	my rating:
	صدای پای آب by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.92 — 186 ratings — published 2001 3 editions	my rating:
	هنوز در سفرم ... by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.85 — 75 ratings — published 1380	my rating:
	The Expanse of Green: Poems of Sohrab Sepehry (Unesco Collection of Representative Works: Persian Heritage Series) by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.61 — 72 ratings — published 1988	my rating:
	The Traveler & We Nothing but Look by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.86 — 64 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	در گلستانه by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 3.92 — 48 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	The Sound of Sohrab's Step by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	The Lover Is Always Alone by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 5.00 — 8 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	گزیده یی از اشعار سهراب by سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2008	my rating: