Sunday July 25, 2010, at 6:30 PM

In Memoriam of
AHMAD SHAMLOU'S 10th Anniversary of his passing

Special Guests:
Farhang Farahi and Sohrab Andisheh

There will be a panel discussion following the film moderated
by Hassan Fayyad

Ahmad Shamlou:
Master Poet of Liberty

 

Directed by Moslem Mansouri

Produced by Bahman Maghsoudlou

The life and works of renowned Iranian poet, writer, and journalist, Ahmad Shamlou, is discussed through dramatic readings, archival footage, photographs, and interviews with scholars, poets, critics and friends, including Mohamad Ali Sepanlou, Zia Movahed, Simin Behbahani, Mohamad Hoghoghi, Javad Mojabi, Esmail Nowriala, Iran Daroudi, Abbas Kiarostami, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Naser Taghvai and others.

There will be a panel discussion following the film moderated by Hassan Fayyad

 

 

Ahmad Shamlou (December 12, 1925 - July 24, 200) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery - which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems - is simple. For infrastructure and impact, he uses personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete unprecedented in Persian poetry before him. He is He is considered as the founder of Persian blank poetry. It is said that you can not find a literate household in Iran where there is none of his poetry book s available. He is an "engaged" poet in the sense that his poetry addresses socio-political issues of his time, with a prophetic emphassize on Liberty and Human Rights.

He has also written and translated numerous articles and bookson a spectrum of subjects, from political to literary. His voluminous Ketab-e Koucheh ( The Book of the Allies) is a major contribution to understanding Iranian folkloric beliefs and language. In 1984 he was nominated for the Noble Prize in Literature.

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