Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Iran
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Nima Yooshij 🇮🇷

نیما یوشیج (Known as "Father of Modern Persian Poetry")
Revolutionary Poet, Literary Theorist, Creator of She'r-e No
Born 12 November 1897 🇮🇷 Yush (Mazandaran), Iran
Passed Away 6 January 1960 Shemiran (Tehran), Iran
Lifespan 62 years old
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"My poetry is like a river flowing from the mountains; it carves its own banks, impatient of the artificial canals of the past."

Archival Overview

Revolutionary innovator hailed as the 'father of modern Persian poetry' whose 1922 poem 'Afsaneh' shattered classical prosody to create 'New Poetry'.

Biographical Record

Ali Esfandiari, world-renowned by his pen name Nima Yooshij, was born in the remote mountain village of Yush in Mazandaran. Educated at the French Saint Louis School in Tehran, where he read modern French symbolist poetry, he returned to his native Caspian forests to forge a revolutionary new aesthetic for Persian literature.

In 1922, Nima published his monumental poem Afsaneh (The Myth), which broke with the thousand-year-old rigid equal-hemistich meter of classical Persian poetry. Nima freed line lengths to follow the natural rhythm of thought and emotion, giving birth to She'r-e No (New Poetry) and mentoring titans like Ahmad Shamlou and Sohrab Sepehri.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Courtyard of his ancestral home
Yush (Mazandaran), Iran
GPS: 36.2100, 51.5200
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