Sohrab Rahimi ( fa, سهراب رحیمی; December 20, 1962 – February 11, 2016), was an Iranian poet, born in
Shahrekord
Shahr-e Kord ( fa, شهركرد, also Romanized as Shahrekord and Shahr Kord) is the capital city of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. It is the largest city in the province, and is 90 km away from Iran's third largest city, Isfahan ...
,
Iran
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. He has written five books in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
and two books in
Swedish
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. He has also translated Persian poetry.
Rahimi's poems have been translated into various languages.
Rahimi's body was found in a burnt car near
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
on February 11, 2016.
He was 53. He was married to
Azita Ghahreman
Azita Ghahreman (born 1962 Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian poet. She has written six books in Persian and three books in Swedish.
She has also translated American poetry.
She has published four collections of poetry: ''Eve's Songs'' (1983), ''Scu ...
.
Books
*''The House of Dreams'' (Persian), 1995
*''The Spoiled Kernels of Time'' (Persian) 1996
*''White balsam'' (Persian and Swedish) 2000
*''A letter to you'' (Persian), 2006
*''The geometric drawing of melancholia'', (poetry in Persian), 2011
*''The librarian of the war'' (novel in Swedish), 2011
*'' The inevitable journey'' (poetry in Swedish), 2012
*'' Compulsive seasons'' (poetry in Persian), 2012
Awards
* 2013
References
External links
Sohrab Rahimi
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1962 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Iranian poets
Iranian emigrants to Sweden
21st-century Iranian poets