Parviz Shapour (February 23, 1924 – 2000) was an Iranian artist and man of letters known for his witticisms and for his brief and troubled marriage to poet
Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...
. He was a student of
Nima Youshij and attended ''Sanati School.''
In 1952, at the age of 31, he began his career as V.P. of Finance in
Iran's Finance Ministry and Ahvaz after earning a bachelor's degree in economics.
By 1958 his stories were published once a week in ''Tofiegh magazine''.
He married ''Forouq Farokhzad'' in 1950 and had a son, Kāmyār Shapour, before divorcing in 1955 and living with his son and brother, "Khosro."
In 1968 Shapour collaborated with
Ahmad Shamlou
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 ...
, editor of the art magazine ''Khoosheh'' (cluster) Journal, and one of Iran's most celebrated poets.
Shamlou gave the name "
Cari-kalamator", or word-caricature, to Shapour's writings. These short humorous sentences proved to be wildly popular with the Iranian public, and helped to make Shapour into one of Iran's cultural and literary leaders. Shapour's writings have been described as "cartoons expressed as words."
His first book of writings and drawings was published in 1964, titled ''Cari-kalamator''.Parviz Shapour's writings have been published in six volumes.
Shapour's designs and drawings were showcased in exhibitions at the Art Gallery in
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in 1968 and 1970.
Some samples of his cari-kalamator are:
* The absent minded compass draws ellipses.
* The decline swims in the water fall.
* I have a lifetime to die.
* The sunflower feels indecisive in cloudy days.
* The guillotine believes that the human head is excessive.
* The cat climbs the first half of the tree because of the dog and the rest because of the bird.
* With the same speed that the cat climbs up the tree, the tree climbs down the cat.
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Payvand News
1924 births
2000 deaths
Iranian caricaturists
Iranian humorists
Iranian writers
Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra
People from Qom
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