Academy of Persian Language and Literature chairperson Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
Membership
The academy members are selected from masters of Persian literature and linguistics. After the 1979 Revolution, Hassan Habibi was appointed as the academy's president, and he remained in that position until his death due to heart failure in January 2013. The current president is Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel.
The following is a list of both living and deceased permanent members of the academy since the 1979 Revolution.Permanent members
Current
Abdolmohammad Ayati
Hassan Anvari
Mahmood Abedi
Kamran Fani
Ahmad Samiei Gilani
Badrozzaman Gharib
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (president)
Hossein Masoumi Hamedani
Gholam Sarvar Homayoun (from Afghanistan)
Houshang Moradi Kermani
Bahaoddin Khorramshahi
Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam
Mehdi Mohaghegh
Fatollah Mojtabaei
Mohammad Ali Movahhed
Abolhassan Najafi
Salim Neysari
Nasrollah Pourjavady
Fazlollah Qodsi (from Afghanistan)
Ali Ravaghi
Esmaeil Sa'dat
Ali-Ashraf Sadeghi
Yadollah Samareh
Bahman Sarkarati
Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi
Mohammad Hossein Yamin (from Afghanistan)
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