List of Persian-language poets and authors facts for kids

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.

From the 7th to the 8th centuries

• Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi, poet (ابوالعباس مروزی)

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• Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور)
• Shams Langeroodi, poet (شمس لنگرودی)
• Shamim Hashimi, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی)
• Shapour Bonyad, poet (شاپور بنیاد)
• Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی)
• Siavash Kasraie poet (سیاوش کسرایی)
• Simin Behbahani, poet (سیمین بهبهانی)
• Simin Daneshvar, writer (سیمین دانشور)
• Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet
• Sohrab Sepehri, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری)

Sohrab Sepehri

• Syed Waheed Ashraf, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic
• Syed Abid Ali Abid Poet and Author
• Temur Zulfiqorov, Tajik poet (Темур Зулфиқоров)
• Varand, poet (واراند)

Varand

• Yadollah Royaee, poet (یدالله رویایی)
• Abdolhamid Ziaei poet, writer (عبدالحمید ضیایی)
• Hossein Rajabian, Playwright (حسین رجبیان)
• Yasmina Reza, poet (یاسمینا رضا)
• Zana Pirzad novelist (زانا پیرزاد)
• Niloufar Talebi (نیلوفر طالبی)
• Sholeh Wolpé poet, playwright (شعله ولپی)
• Iraj Zebardast, poet (ایرج زبردست)

See also

• List of Iranian writers