Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri (1928 - 1980) was one of large the Poète S Iran iens of the twentieth century. Contemporary - inter alia - of Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad and Nima Yushij, it was famous for his paintings.

Sepehri was a traveller. It went on many journeys in Europe and in Africa, lived one year with the the United States then two in France.

Sepehri had a very particular writing. The broad topics of its work are nature, the friendship and the direction of the life.

It is in homage to Sepehri that Abbas Kiarostami realized in 1987 Khané-yé doust kodjast? ( Where is the house of my friend? ), a film bearing the name of one of its poems.

Its work was partially translated into French by Daryush Shayegan and Mahshid Moshiri.

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Some poems of Sohrab Sepehri in French

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