page_title: Lists of Persian poets
section_title: Prose
hierarchical_section_title: Lists of Persian poets / 20th century / Prose
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000), Iranian poet, writer and journalist. Licensing Photograph by: Fakhradin Fakhraddini Source: Payvand.com.
context_page_description: The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
context_section_description: Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
  Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
  Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
  Harbans Bhalla (1930-1993), poet
  Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, poet
  Simin Behbahani, poet(سیمین بهبهانی)
  Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور)
  Hushang Ebtehaj, poet(هوشنگ ابتهاج)
  Parvin E'tesami, poet (پروین اعتصامی)
  Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
  Forough Farrokhzad, poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
  Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
  Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلی‌خان هدایت)
  Muhammad Iqbal, poet (محمد اقبال)
  Syed Abuzar Bukhari, poet, writer, orator
  Iraj Mirza, poet (ایرج میرزا)
  Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
  Esmail Khoi, poet (اسماعیل خویی)
  Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
  Mirzadeh Eshghi (میرزاده عشقی)
  Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
  Nader Naderpour, poet (نادر نادرپور)
  Said Nafisi, Scholar, poet and writer
  Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج)
  Nosrat Rahmani, poet نصرت رحمانی()
  Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری)
  Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
  Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی)
  Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
  Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
  Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet
caption: Ahmad Shamlou
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