Iraj Kaboli ( fa, ایرج کابلی; 12 April 1938 – 17 February 2021) was an Iranian writer,

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and translator.

Biography

Iraj was born in 1938 in a

Zoroastrian Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic ...

family in Kerman. He came to

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

for his high school and pursued his education there at

Alborz High School Mandegar Alborz High School ( fa, دبیرستان ماندگار البرز) is a college-preparatory high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and the Middle East, named after the Alborz ...

. His passion for languages led him to learn several languages and he started to translate from English and Russian. He was also a friend and associate of

Ahmad Shamloo Ahmad Shamlou ( fa, احمد شاملو, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ( fa, ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most infl ...

, a member of the '' Iranian Writers' Association'' , and a member of the '' Council for Revising the Orthography of the Persian Language''. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of '' Hooshang Golshiri Foundation''.

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1938 births 2021 deaths Linguists from Iran Iranian translators Persian-language writers People from Kerman Iranian Zoroastrians People from Kerman Province Iranian Writers Association members Place of death missing {{Iran-writer-stub