A Brief History of Persian Literature

"Poems" refers to a combination of "Qasida/ Odes", "Masnavi/ Narrative verse", "Ghazal/ Mystical lyric", "Rubai/ Quatrains". When a poet specialized only in one genre of poetry, that genre is indicated.

See Steve Moore: "The Novel" for synopses of the ancient narratives (whether in verse or prose).

The dates of ancient works are obviously wildly approximate.

"Avesta" (1## AD) [p] + "Arta-Viraf Namak/ Arda Viraf Namak/ Descent of Arta Viraf to Hell" (3##) "Denkart/ Denkard/ Acts of the Religion" (6##) [h] "Bundahisn/ Creation of the Origins" (6##) [h] "Jamasp Namak" (6##) [h] "Yatkar-i Zariran/ Ayatkari Zareran/ Memoirs of Zarir" (6##) "Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan/ Deeds of Ardashir" (6##) Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar (8##): "Hazar Afsanah/ Thousand Myths" (9##) Abu Abdullah Rudak/ Rudaki/ Abdollah Jafar Ibn Mohammad Roudaki (859): "Poems" (940) [p] Abu Mansur Daqiqi (93#): "Poems for the Shahnameh" (97#) [p] Abu Ali Sina/ Avicenna (980): "Danish Nameh-ye Ala'i" (10##) [h] Haki-m Abol-Qa-sem Ferdowsi Tusi (932): "Shah-nameh" (1010) [p] + Abul Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani (9##): "Divan" (1037) [p] Abusaeid Abolkheyr/ Abu Said (967): "Poems" (10##) [p] Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (10##): "Poems" (10##) [p] Abu Mansur Qatran-Adudi (1009): "Odes" (1072) [p] Fakhr al-Dln Gurgani (10##): "Vis o Ramin" (10##) [p] Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri (9##): "Divan" (10##) [p] Abu Najm Abu Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri (10##): "Poems" (10##) [p] Abu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi-Tusi (10##): "Garshasp-nama" (10##) [p] Abu Mo'in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw/ Nasir-i Khusrau/ Khosrow/ Khosro/ Naser (1004): "Safar Nameh" (10##) [h] Abu Mo'in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw/ Nasir-i Khusrau/ Khosrow/ Khosro/ Naser (1004): "Rawshana-i-nama/ Shish Fasl/ Book of Enlightenment" (10##) [p] + Abu Mo'in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw/ Nasir-i Khusrau/ Khosrow/ Khosro/ Naser (1004): "Sadatnama/ Book of Felicity" (10##) [p] Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani/ Baba Tahir (1019): "Dubayti Poems" (10##) [p] Data Gasnjbaksh Ali al-Hujviri (10##): "Poems" (1071) [p] Abu Mo'in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw (1004): "Safarnama" (105#) [h] Fakhruddin Asad Gorgani (10##): "Vis o Ramin" (10##) [p] Abul Faraj Runi (10##): "Mathnavi" (11##) [p] Nizam ul-Mulk/ Nezamolmolke (1018): "Siasat Nameh/ Siyasatnama" (10##) [h] Kai Kaus (10##): "Nasihat-Nama/ Qabus Nameh/ A Mirror for Princes" (10##) [h] Youstol Dispage (1005): "Piero Scaruffi" (1099) [p] "Dastan-e Amir Hamza" (10##) Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058): "Kimiya-ye Sa'adat/ The Alchemy of Happiness" (110#) [h] Baihaqi (10##): "History of the Ghaznavids" (11##) [h] Nasrullah/ Nasr Ullah (11##): "Kalila va Dimna" (11##) Nizami Al-Arudi/ Aruzi (11##): "Chahar Maqala/ Four Discourses" (11##) [h] Ibn al-Balkhi (11##): "Fars Nameh" (11##) [h] Amir Muizzi (11##): "Odes" (11##) [p] Hamid ud-Din (11##): "Maqamat" (1164) [h] Shihabuddin Amaq (11##): "Yusof o Zoleikha" (114#) [p] Hakim Sanai (10##): "The Hadiqat-ul Haqiqah/ The Walled Garden of Truth" (114#) [p] + Hakim Sanai (10##): "Qasida poems" (12##) [p] Farid ad-Din Attar (1136): "Mantegh at-Tayr/ The Conference of the Birds" (112#) [p] + Farid ad-Din Attar (1136): "Ghazal Poems" (11##) [p] Afzaladdin Ibrahim-ibn Ali Nadjar Khaqani (11##): "Tohvat-ul Iraqein/ A Gift of the Two Iraqs" (119#) [p] Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Vahid ad-Din Muhammad Khavarani Anvari/ Anwari (112#): "Divan" (118#) [p] Omar Khayyam (1048): "Rubaiyat" (1120) [p] Masudi Sad Salman (1046): "Poems" (1131) [p] Nezami Ganjawi/ Nizam ad-Din Abu- Muhammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu'ayyid Nizami (1141): "Makhzan al-Asrar/ The Storehouse of Mysteries" (1163) [p] + Nezami Ganjawi/ Nizam ad-Din Abu- Muhammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu'ayyid Nizami (1141): "Khusraw o Shirin" (1180) [p] Nezami Ganjawi/ Nizam ad-Din Abu- Muhammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu'ayyid Nizami (1141): "Layli o Majnun" (1192) [p] + Nezami Ganjawi/ Nizam ad-Din Abu- Muhammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu'ayyid Nizami (1141): "Haft Peykar/ The Seven Beauties" (1196) [p] ++ Nezami Ganjawi/ Nizam ad-Din Abu- Muhammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu'ayyid Nizami (1141): "Eskandarname/ The Book of Alexander" (1202) [p] + Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi Maqtul (1155): "Mystical and Visionary Treatises" (1191) [h] Sad al-Din al-Varavini (11##): "Marzuban ibn Rustam/ The Tales of Marzuban" (11##) Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah Sadi/ Mosleh al-Din Saadi (1184): "Bustan/ The Orchard" (1257) [p] + Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah Sadi/ Mosleh al-Din Saadi (1184): "Gulistan/ The Rose Garden" (1258) [p] Molana Jalal al-din Mohamad Balkhi "Rumi" (1207): "Mathnawi/ Masnavi-ye Manavi/ Spiritual Poem" (1273) [p] + Molana Jalal al-din Mohamad Balkhi "Rumi" (1207): "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i/ The Works of Shams of Tabriz" (12##) [p] Mahmud Shabistari (12##): "Gulshani Raz" (13##) [p] Hamdullah Mostofi (12##): "Zafar Nameh/ Book of Victory" (12##) [p] Fakhr al-di-n Ibrahim/ Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213): "Lamaat/ Divine Flashes" () [p] Amiri Khusrav/ Amir Khosrow (1253): "Wastul-Hayat/ The Middle of Life" (1279) [p] + Amiri Khusrav/ Amir Khosrow (1253): "Ghurratul-Kamaal/ The Prime of Perfection" (1294) [p] Amiri Khusrav/ Amir Khosrow (1253): "Duval Rani-Khizr Khan/ Romance of Duval Rani and Khizr Khan" (1315) [p] Amiri Khusrav/ Amir Khosrow (1253): "Aeneye Sekandari" (1300) [p] Alaiddin Ata-ul-Mulk Juvaini (1226): "Tarikh-i-Jehan Ghusha/ Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini/ The History of Conquering The World" (1259) [h] Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani (1260): "Tabakat-i-Nasiri" (13##) [h] Rashid ud-Din (1247): "Jami' ut-Tawarikh/ Universal History" (1316) [h] Abul-Atta Kamaleddin Mahmoud Khaju Morshedi Kermani (1281): "Nouruz o Gol" (1341) [p] Sihab al-Din Abd-Allah Saraf Sirazi Vassaf (12##): "Tajziyah al-Amsar va Tazjiyat al-Asar" (13##) [h] Obeyd Zakani (13##): "Satires" (1372) [p] Obeyd Zakani (13##): "Mush o-gorbeh/ Mouse and Cat" (13##) [p] + Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafez Shirazi/ Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez/ Hafiz (1326): "Divan" (1389) [p] ++ Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Khiradnameh Iskandar/ Kheradnameye Eskandari/ Alexander's Wisdom" (1485) [p] + Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Yusof o Zoleikha/ Yousef and Zolaikha" (1483) [p] + Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Salaman o Absal" (1480) [p] Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Sobhato Labrar" (1482) [p] Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Baharistan" (14##) [p] Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414): "Divan" (14##) [p] Fattahi Nishapur (14##): "Dasturi Ushiaq" (14##) [p] Nizam al-Din Shami (13##): "Zafar Nameh/ Zafar-ndma/ A History of Timur" (140#) [h] Muhammad ibn Khavadnshah Mirkhand/ Mir Khand (14##): "Rozat as-Safa/ Tarikh-e Rozat-ol Safa/ Garden of Purity" (14##) [h] Davvani (14##): "Akhlaqi Jalali/ The Jalalian Ethics" (14##) [h] Hosayn Waez Kashefi (14##): "Anvari Suhaili/ The Lights of Canopus" (14##) Sheik Bighami (14##): "Firuzshahnama/ Adventures of Firuz Shah" (1483) "Qissai-i Hatim Tai/ Adventures of Hatim Tayy" (11##) Abu-Taleb Kalim Kashani (158#): "Divan" (16##) [p] Abu-Taleb Kalim Kashani (158#): "Shah Jahan Nameh" (16##) [p] Faizi (1547): "Divan" (1595) [p] Saib/ Saeb of Tabriz (1601): "Divan/ Poems" (1677) [p] Mirza Bedil (1644): "Divan" (1721) [p] Mirza Bedil (1644): "Irfan" (1712) [p] + Mirza Bedil (1644): "Tilismi Hairat/ The Talisman of Wonder" (1669) [p] + Mirza Bedil (1644): "Turi Marifat/ The Sinai of Gnosis" (1668) [p] + Ali Hazin (1692): "Poems" (1766) [p] Seyyed Ahmad Hatef Esfehani (171#): "Divan/ Poems" (1783) [p] Fath-Ali Khan Saba of Kashan (1765): "Shahanshahnameh/ The Book of the King of Kings" (1810) [p] Asadullah Ghalib (1796): "Divan/ Poems" (1869) [p] Qaani Shirazi (1808): "Divan" (1854) [p] + Qaani Shirazi (1808): "Ketabe Parishan/ The Book of Anxiety" (1836) [p] Mirza Fatali Akhundzade (Azerbaijan, 1812): "The Deceived Stars" "Aldanmis Kavakib" (1857) Mirza Fatali Akhundzade (Azerbaijan, 1812): "Serguzesti-veziri-xani-Lankaran/ The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lankaran" (1850) [t] Mahmud Tarzi (Afghanistan, 1865): "Siyahat-e Shish-Haftegi/ A Six-Week Tour/ Travel Across Three Continents in Twenty-Nine Days" (1914) Iraj Mirza (1874): "Poems" (1926) [p] Mohammad Bagher Mirza Khosravi (1850): "Shams o Tagra/ Shams and Toghra" (1910) Hassn Badi Nosrat-al-Wozara (1872): "Dastan-e Bastan ya Sargozasht-e Kourosh/ An Ancient Story" (1920) Mohammed Iqbal (Pakistan, 1873): "Asrari Khudi" (1915) [p] + Mohammed Iqbal (Pakistan, 1873): "Payami Mashriq" (1923) [p] Mohammed Iqbal (Pakistan, 1873): "Zaburi Ajam" (1927) [p] + Mohammed Iqbal (Pakistan, 1873): "Javednama" (1932) [p] + Aref Qazvini (1882): "Tasnifat/ Ballads", notably "Az Khon-e Javanan-e Vatan Laleh Damideh/ From the Blood of the Homeland's Youth Tulips Bloom" (1911) [p] Shaikh Musa Nasri (1882): "Esq o Saltanat ya Fotuhat-e Kourosh-e kabir/ Love and Kingship" (1919) Mirza Taqi Khan Bahar/ Mohammad-Taghi Bahar (1886): "Damavandiyeh/ The Chained White Beast" (1922) [p] Hosayn Masrur (1888): "Dah Nafar Ghezelbash/ The Ten Kizilbash" (1948) Abdul Haq Betab (Afghanistan, 1888): "Divan/ Poems" (1951) [p] Zabih Behruz (1889): "Shah-e Iran o Banu-ye Arman/ The Persian King and the Armenian Lady" (1927) Taqi Rafat/ Femina (1889): "Divan/ Poems" (1920) [p] Abbas Khalili (1891): "Ruzgare Siah/ Black Days" (1924) Mirzadeh Eshghi/ Mirzada Esghi/ Sayed Mohammad Reza Eshghi (1893): "Ideal-e Pir-mard-e Dehghan/ The Old Peasant's Ideal Wish" (1924) [p] Nima Yushij/ Ali Esfandiari (Iran, 1895): "Afsaneh/ The Myth" (1923) [p] + Mohammad Ali Jamalzadah (1895): "Dar al-Majanin/ The Lunatic Asylum" (1942) or "Gholtashan Divan" (1946) or "Rahaab-nama/ The Story of the Aqueduct" (1948) and Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas ya Esfahan-nama" (1955) the best ones are the early ones Abdoal-Hosayn Sanatizada (1895): "Damgostaran ya Enteghamkhahane Mazdak/ The Avengers of Mazdak" (1926) Ali Dashti (1896): "Fetneh" (1943) Hosayn Roknzada Adamiyat (1899): "Daliran-e Tangestani/ The Heroes of Tangestan" (1931) Mohammed Hejazi (1900): "Ziba" (1931) Morteza Moshfegh Kazemi (1902): "Tehran-e Makhuf/ The Horrible Tehran" (1922) Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Sayeh-ye Mughul/ Mongol Shadow" (1931) Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Ab-e Zendegi/ The Water of Life" (1931) Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Alawiya Khanom/ Madame Alaviyeh" (1933) Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Buf-e Kur/ The Blind Owl" (1937) + Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Haji Agha" (1945) Sadeq Hedayat (1903): "Fardaa" (1946) Youstol Dispage (1903): "Piero Scaruffi" (1939) [p] Bozorg Alavi (1904): "Cheshmhayash/ Her Eyes" (1952) + Bozorg Alavi (1904): "Mirza" (1968) Hosayngholi Mostaan (1904): "Aafat/ Calamity" (1956) Mohammad Masud (1905): "Tafrihat-e shab/ Nocturnal Pleasures" (1933) + Mohammad Masud (1905): "Golha-i ke dar Jahannam Miruyand/ Flowers That Sprout in Hell" (1943) Parvin Etesami (1906): "Divan/ Poems" (1941) [p] Parvin Etesami (1906): "Mast va Hoshyar/ The Drunk and the Sober" (1935) [p] + Khalil Ullah Khalili (Afghanistan, 1907) "Divan/ Poems" (1962) [p] Khalilullah Khalili (Afghanistan, 1908): "Ashkha wa Khunha/ Tears and Blood" (1985) [p] Jahangir Jalili (1909): "Man Ham Gerya Kardaam/ I Too Have Wept" (1934) Zayn-al-Abedin Motamen (1914): "Ashiana-ye Oghab/ The Eagle's Nest" (1939) Javad Fazel (1915): "Eshgh o Ashk/ Love and Tears" (1948) Javad Fazel (1915): "Doxtar-e Yatim/ The Orphan Girl" (1953) Mohammad Etemadzadeh Behazin (1915): "Mohra-ye Mar/ The Snake Charmer" (1955) Mohammad Etemadzadeh Behazin (1915): "Dokhtar-e Raiyat/ The Peasant's Daughter" (1951) Sadeq Chubak/ Choubak (1916): "Tangsir" (1963) Sadeq Chubak/ Choubak (1916): "Sang-i Sabur" (1966) + Mohammad Asef Sohail (Afghanistan, 1918): "Armaghan-e Az Ash'ar/ A Gift of Poems" (1993) [p] Rasul Parvizi (1919): "Shalvarha-ye Vasleh-dar/ The Patched Pants" (1957) Simin Daneshvar (1921): "Suvashun/ The Mourners" (1969) + Simin Daneshvar (1921): "Jazire-ye Sar gardani/ The Island of Bewilderment" (1992) Ebrahim Golestan (1922): "Madd o Meh/ The Tide and the Mist" (1969) Ebrahim Golestan (1922): "Asrar-e Ganj-e Darra-ye Jenni/ The Secrets of the Treasure of the Haunted Valley" (1974) + Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923): "Nefirin-e Zamin/ The Cursing of the Land" (1967) Gholam-Hosayn Gharib (1923): "Afsana-ye Sarban/ The Legend of the Camel Driver" (1948) Ali-Mohammad Afghani (1925): "Showhar-e Ahu Kanom/ Ahu Khanum's Husband" (1961) + Ali-Mohammad Afghani (1925): "Shadkaman-e Darra-ye Qarasu/ The Blissful Inhabitants of the Qarasu Valley" (1966) Mostafa Rahimi (1925): "Bayad Zendagi Kard/ Life Must Go On" (1977) Hushang Irani (1925): "Banafsh-e Tond bar Khakestari/ Spicy Violet on Grey" (1951) [p] Hushang Irani (1925): "Khakestari" (Grey, 1952) [p] Hushang Irani (1925): "Sholeh-i Pardeh ra Bar-gereft o Eblis be Darun Amad/ A Flame Embraced the Curtain, and Iblis Entered" (1952) [p] Ahmad Shamlou (Iran, 1925): "Havaye Tazeh/ Fresh Air" (1957) [p] + Ahmad Shamlou (Iran, 1925): "Ayda dar Ayeneh/ Ayda in the Mirror" (1964) [p] Fereydoon/ Feraydoun Moshiri (1926): "Abr/ Cloud" (1961) [p] Iraj Pezeshkzad (1927): "Da'i jan Napeleon/ My Uncle Napoleon" (1964) Simin Behbahani (1927): "Khat-i Ze Sor'at va Az Atash/ A Line of Speed and Fire" (1980) [p] Simin Behbahani (1927): "Dasht-e Arzhan/ The Plain of Arzhan (1983) [p] Bijan Jalali (1927): "Roozha/ Days" (1962) [p] Siavash Kasrai (1927): "Arashe Kamangir/ Arash the Archer" (1959) [p] Hushang Ebtehaj (1928): "Siah Mashq/ Bleak Travails" (1953) [p] Hushang Ebtehaj (1928): "Bang-e Ney/ The Cry of the Reed" (1981) [p] Mehdi Akhavan-Sales/ Saleth (1929): "Zemestan/ Winter" (1956) [p] Sohrab Sepehri (1928): "Hasht Ketab/ The Eight Books" (1976) [p] + Nader Naderpour (1929): "She'r-e Angoor/ The Grape Poem" (1958) [p] Mostafa Farzana/ M.F. Farzaneh (1929): "Khana/ The House" (1983) Solyman Layegh/ Sulaiman Layeq (Afghanistan, 1930): "Chunghar" (1962) [p] Bareq Shafiye (Afghanistan, 1931): "Satak/ The Branch" (1963) [p] Ahmad Mahmud (1931): "Hamsayeha/ Neighbors" (1974) + Ahmad Mahmud (1931): "Zamin-e Sukhteh/ Scorched Earth" (1982) Ahmad Mahmud (1931): "Dastan-e yak Shahr/ The Tale of a City" (1991) Ahmad Mahmud (1931): "Madar-e Sefr Darajeh/ The Zero Degree Latitude" (1993) Momen Ghenaat/ Mumin Qanoat (Tajikstan, 1932): "Surush-e Stalingrad/ The Voice of Stalingrad" (1975) [p] Taghi Modarresi (1932): "Yakolya va Tanha i-e U/ Yakolya and Her Loneliness" (1956) + Taghi Modarresi (1932): "Sharifjan Sharifjan" (1965) Pari Saberi (1932): "Man be Baaga-e 'Erfaan/ I to the Garden of Mysticism" () [t] Yadollah Royaee (1932): "Bar Jadeh-haye Tohi/ On Empty Roads" (1961) [p] Jamal Mirsadeghi (1933): "Baadha Khabar az Taghyir-e Fasl Midahand/ The Winds Announce a Change of Season" (1984) + Jamal Mirsadeghi (1933): "Shab-Cherag/ The Glittering Gem" (1976) Jamal Mirsadeghi (1933): Atash az Atash/ Fire from Fire" (1985) Bahman Forsi (1933): "Shab-e Yak Shab-e Dow/ Night One Night Two" (1974) Esmail Fasih (1935): "Del-kur/ Blind-Hearted" (1970) Esmail Fasih (1935): "Soraya dar Eghma" (1983) Esmail Fasih (1935): "Zemestan-e Shast o Dow/ The Winter of '62" (1987) + Gholam Hossein Saedi (1935): "Dayereh-e Mina/ The Blue Cycle" (1972) Gholam Hossein Saedi (1935): "Toup/ The Cannon" (1968) Gholam Hossein Saedi (1935): "Maah-e Asal" (1976) [t] Gholam Hossein Saedi (1935): "Pardadaaraan-e Aayina-afruz/ The Mirror-polishing Storytellers" (1985) [t] Gholam Hossein Saedi (1935): "Otello dar Sarzamin-e/ Ajaayeb/ Othello in wonderland" (1985) [t] Bahram Sadeghi (1936): "Malakut/ Heavenly Kingdom" (1961) + Forugh Farrokhzad (1935): "Divar/ The Wall" (1956) [p] Forugh Farrokhzad (1935): "Tavallodi Digar/ Another Birth" (1964) [p] Reza Baraheni (1935): "Ruzegar-e Duzakhi-ye Aqa-ye Ayaz/ The Infernal Times of Aqa-ye Ayaz" (1972) + Reza Baraheni (1935): "Az Chah be Chah/ From One Well to Another" (1983) Reza Baraheni (1935): "Avaz-e Koshtegan/ The Song of the Slain" (1985) Reza Baraheni (1935): "Razha-ye Sarzamin-e Man/ Mysteries of My Land" (1987) Reza Baraheni (1935): "Azada Kanom wa Nevisanda-ash/ Azadeh Khanum and Her Writer" (1988) Bizhan Mofid (1935): "Shahr-e Qessa/ City of Tales" (1969) [t] EsmaeilKhalaj (1936): "Paatugh/ The Hangout" (1971) [t] Esmaeil Khalaj (1936): "Goldun Kaanom/ Mrs Goldun" (1971) [t] Ahmad Aghai (1936) "Cheragani dar Bad/ Illuminations in the Wind" (1988) Hushang Golshiri (1937): "Shazdeh Ehtejab/ The Prince" (1968) + Hushang Golshiri (1937): "Kristin o Kid" (1971) Hushang Golshiri (1937): "Barra-ye Gomshoda-ye Rai/ The Last Lamb of the Shepherd" (1977) Hushang Golshiri (1937): "Ayinaha-ye Dardaar/ Mirrors With Doors" (1992) Akram Osman (Afghanistan, 1937): "Kucha-ye Ma/ Our Street" (2005) Mahmud Farani (Afghanistan, 1938): "Akharin Setara/ The Last Star" (1963) [p] Bahram Beyzaie (1938): "Seh Nemayesh Nameh-ye 'Arusaki/ Three Puppet Plays" (1963) [t] Bahram Beyzaie (1938): "Chahaar Sanduq/ Four Boxes" (1967) [t] + Bahram Beyzaie (1938): "Death of Yazdgerd" (1979) [t]" Bahram Beyzaie (1938): "Tarabnameh" (1994) [t] Bozor Sobir (Tajikstan, 1938): "Zabon-e Madari/ Mother Tongue" (1978) [p] Akbar Radi (1939): "Melodi-ye Shahr-e Barani/ Melody of Rainy City" (2000) [t] Akbar Radi (1939): "Oful/ The Descent" (1964) [t] Akbar Radi (1939): "Sayyaadaan/ The Fishermen" (1969) [t] Akbar Radi (1939): "Marg dar Paaiz/ Death in the Autumn" (1970) [t] + Akbar Radi (1939): "Ahesta Baa Gol-e Sorkh/ Slowly with the Rose" (1988) [t] Parviz Sayyad (1939): "Mohaakama-ye Sinemaa Reks/ The Rex Cinema Trial" () [t] Parviz Sayyad (1939): "Khar/ Donkey" (1983) [t] Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani (1939): "Dar Kucheh-Bagh-ha-ye Neyshabur/ In the Alleys of Neyshabur�s Gardens" (1971) [p] Samad Behrangi (1939): "Mahi Siyah Kuchulu/ The Little Black Fish" (1968) Jawad Mojabi (1939): "Shahrbandan/ Curfew" (1987) Jawad Mojabi (1939): "Shab-e Malakh/ The Night of the Locust" (1990) Jawad Mojabi (1939): "Mumiaii/ Mummified" (1993) + Ahmadreza Ahmadi (1940): "Tarh/ Sketch" (1962) [p] Ahmadreza Ahmadi (1940): "Rooznameh-ye Shisheh-ee/ The Glass Newspaper" (1967) [p] Mahmud Dowlatabadi (1940): "Owsena-ye Baba Sobhan/ The Legend of Baba Sobhan" (1968) Mahmud Dowlatabadi (1940): "Ja-ye Khali-e Saluch/ The Empty Place of Saluch/ Missing Soluch" (1979) Mahmud Dowlatabadi (1940): "Kelidar" (1984) ++ Mahmud Dowlatabadi (1940): "Ruzgar-e Separi Shoda-ye Mardoman-e Salkhorde/ The Bygone Days of the Aged" (1990) Mahmud Dowlatabadi (1940): "Zaval-e Colonel/ The Colonel" (2009) Mahshid Amirshahi (1940): "Elahi" (1996) Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (1941): "Saal-e Abri/ A Cloudy Year" (1993) Layeq Shir-Ali/ Loik Sherali (Tajikstan, 1941): "Modarnoma/ The Mother-Book" (1975) [p] Asadullah Habib (Afghanistan, 1941): "Khat-e Surkh/ The Red Line" (1984) [p] Fattana Hajj Sayyed Jawadi (1942): "Bamdad-e Khomar/ The Morning After" (1996) Bahram Haydari (1942): "Alaf ke Namishekanad/ A Grass Leaf Doesn't Break" (1997) Nasim Khaksar (1943): "Ghafas-e Tuti-e Jahan Khanom/ The Cage of Jahan Khanom's Parrot" (1991) Ali Nasirian (1943): "Bongaah-e Teaatraal Nemaayesh-e Takht-hawzi Dar do Bakhsh/ The Theatrical Agency" (1978) [t] Mohsen Yalfani (1943): "Molaaqaat/ Visit" (1979) [t] + Mohsen Yalfani (1943): "Qawitar az Shab/ Stronger than the Night" (1990) [t] Mohsen Yalfani (1943): "Bonbast/ Dead End" (1990) [t] Rahnaward Zaryab (Afghanistan, 1944): "Char Gerd-e Qala Gashtam/ I Walked Around the Castle" (2011) Rahnaward Zaryab (Afghanistan, 1944): "Golnar wa Aina/ Golnar and the Mirror" (2003) Vasef Bakhtari (Afghanistan, 1943): "Wa Aftab Nemi Morad/ And the Sun Does Not Die� (1983) [p] Shokuh Mirzadegi (1944): "Bigana-i dar Man/ An Alien in Me" (Uppsala" (1992) Asghar Elahi (1944): "Salmargi" (2006) Asghar Elahi (1944): "Digar Siyavasi Namandeh" (1990) Asghar Elahi (1944): "Gona-ye Moqaddas/ The Sacred Sin" (1996) Bijan Elahi (1945): "Didan/ Vision" (2010) [p] Shahrnoush Parsipur (1946): "Sag o Zemestan-e Boland/ The Dog and the Long Winter" (1976) Shahrnoush Parsipur (1946): "Tuba wa Mana-ye Shab/ Tuba and the Meaning of the Night" (1988) + Shahrnoush Parsipur (1946): "Zanan Bedun-e Mardan/ Women Without Men" (1990) Golrokhsar Safi Eva/ Gulrukhsor Safieva (Tajikstan, 1947): "Otashi Sughd/ The Sughd Fire" (1981) [p] Latif Nazemi (Afghanistan, 1947): "Milad-e Sabz/ The Green Birth" (1975) [p] Ghazala Alizada (1948): "Khana-ye Edrisi-ha/ The House of the Edrisis" (1992) Reza Daneshvar (1948): "Khosrow-e Khuban/ King of the Beautiful" (1994) Hormoz Shahdadi (1948): "Shab-e Howl/ The Night of Terror" (1978) + Reza Ghasemi (1949): "Hamnavayi Shabaneye Orchestre Chubha/ Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Instructions" (1996) + Spojmai Zariab (Afghanistan, 1949): "Dasht-e Qabil/ The Plain of Cain" (1988) Mahmad Masudi (1949): "Surat al-Ghorab/ The Chapter of the Raven" (1984) Reza Julai (1950): "Shab-e Zolmani-e Yalda wa Hadis-e Dordkeshan/ The Longest Night of the Year and the Tale of the Tippler" (1990) Mohammad Shams Langeroodi (1950): "Ghaside-ye Labkhand-e Chak Chak/ A Narrative of the Fractured Smile" (1988) [p] Mohammad Shams Langeroodi (1950): "Not-haye Tanhaee/ The Notes of Loneliness" (1991) [p] Akbar Sarduzami (1951): "Baradar-am Jadugar Bud/ My Brother Was a Sorcerer" (1992) Mahmud Falaki (1951): "Sayaha/ Shadows" (1997) Firouzeh Mizani (1952): "Hasudi be Sang/ Envious of the Stone" (1994) [p] Zoya Pirzad (1952): "Cheragh-ha ra man khamoosh mikonam/ I'll Turn Off the Lights" (2001) Daryush Kargar (1952): "Payan-e Yak 'Omr/ The End of a Life" (1994) Ghazi Rabihawi (1954): "Labkhand-e Maryam/ Maryam's Smile" (1996) Moniru Ravanipur (1954): "Ahl-e Ghargh/ The People of Drowning" (1989) Moniru Ravanipur (1954): "Del-e Fulad/ Heart of Steel" (1990) Sardar Salehi (1954): "Az Pas-e Shana-ye Shah/ From Behind the Shah's Shoulders" (1997) Jafar Modarres Sadeqhi (1954): "Gavkhuni" (1983) Jafar Modarres Sadeqhi (1954): "Safar-e Kasra/ Kasra's Journey" (1989) Jafar Modarres Sadeqhi (1954): "Nakoja-abad/ Nowhere Land" (1990) + Amir Hasan Cheheltan (1956): "Talar-e'Aineh/ The Hall of Mirrors" (1991) Fereshteh Sari (1956): "Jazira-ye Nili/ The Cobalt Blue Island" (1991) Fereshteh Sari (1956): "Aramgah-e Aseghan/ The Lovers' Mausoleum" (1995) Abdul Qahar Asi (Afghanistan, 1956): "Az Jazeera-ye Khoon/ From the Island of Blood" (1993) [p] Shahriar Mandanipour (1957): "Majara-ye Yek Eshq-e Irani ke Tahrim Sod/ Censoring an Iranian Love Story" (2009) Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957): "Hawz-e Soltun/ Soltun's Pool" (1984) Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957): "Bagh-e Bolur/ The Crystal Garden" (1986) Abbas Marufi (1957): "Samfoni-e Mordagan/ Symphony of the Dead" (1989) + Abbas Marufi (1957): "Sal-e Balva/ The Year of Catastrophes" (1992) Abbas Marufi (1957): "Peykar-e Farhad" (1995) Leila Sarahat Roshani (Afghanistan, 1958): "Tolou-e Sabz/ The Green Sunrise� (1986) [p] Mehrdad Fallah (1960): "Kalemat Shekl-e Dahanat Mishavand/ Words Assume the Shape of Your Mouth" (2001) [p] Sasan Ghahreman (1961): "Gosal/ Rupture" (1994) Azita Ghahreman (1962): "Tandis-ha-ye Paeezi/ Sculptures of Autumn" (1986) [p] Farzaneh Khojandi (Tajikstan, 1964): "Ahi Be-Enteha/ Unending Sigh" (2007) [p] Parwin Pazwak (Afghanistan, 1967): "Darya dar Shabnam/ Oceans in Dew" (2000) [p] Ali Abdolrezaei (1969): "Faghat Ahanha Dar Baran Zang Mizanand/ Only Iron-Men Rust in the Rain" (1991) [p] Ali Abdolrezaei (1969): "Paris-dar-Renault/ Paris in a Renault" (1996) [p] Arash Hejazi (1971): "Shahzadeh-ye Sarzamin-e Abadiyat/ The Princess of the Land of Eternity (2003) Shokoofeh Azar (1972): "Derakht-e Gojeh Sabz/ The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree" (2017) Granaz Moussavi (1974): "Paberahneh Ta Sobh/ Barefoot Till Morning" (2001) [p] Pegah Ahmadi (1974): "Ruy-e Sol-e Payani/ On the Final G" (1999) [p] Pegah Ahmadi (1974): "In Ruzhayam Galust/ These Days of Mine Are a Throat" (2004) [p] Amir Reza Koohestani (1978): "Murmuring Tales" (2000) [t] + Amir Reza Koohestani (1978): "Dance on the glasses" (2001) [t] + Amir Reza Koohestani (1978): "Where were you on January 8th?" (2009) [t] Amir Reza Koohestani (1978): "Hearing" (2015) [t] Amir Reza Koohestani (1978): "Blind Runner" (2023) [t] Mohammad Tolouei (1979): "Ghorbani-ye Bad-e Movafegh/ Fair Wind�s Prey" (2007) Garus Abdolmalekian (1980): "Hofreh-ha/ Hollows" (2011) [p] Garus Abdolmalekian (1980): "Hich Chiz Mesl-e Marg Tazeh Nist/ Acceptance" (2015) [p] Garus Abdolmalekian (1980): "Seganeh-ye Khavarmianeh - Jang, Eshgh, Tanhayi/ Middle East Trilogy - War, Love, Solitude" (2018) [p] Roja Chamankar (1981): "Mardi keh Rooy-e Pelak-e Nimkat Neshasteh Ast/ The Man Who Is Sitting on the Bench's Plaque" (2012) [p] Nassim Soleimanpour (1981): "White Rabbit Red Rabbit" (2008) [t] Arman Arian (1981): "Parsian va Man/ Persians and I" (2005) Fatemeh Shams (1983): "Hashtad-o Hasht/ 88" (2013) [p] Siavash Pakrah (1984): "Ka" (2009) [t] Babak Abazari (1984): "Gahvareh-i ruye Gosal/ A Cradle on a Fault Line" (2014) [p] Nasim Marashi (1984): "Payiz Fasl-e Akhar-e Sal Ast/ Autumn Is the Last Season of the Year" (2014) Fatemeh Ekhtesari (1986): "Yek Bahse Feministi Ghabl az Pokhtane Sibzaminiha/ A Feminist Discussion Before Cooking Potatoes" (2010) [p] Milad Khanmirzaei (1992): "Sad Dar va Hezar Divar/ One Hundred Doors and a Thousand Walls" (2014) [p] Birth dates unknown (contact me if you know them): Salman Farsi Salehzehi (): "Aab Baad Khaak/ Water wind Land" (1989) [t] TM, ®, Copyright © 2006 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.