Bijan Jalali ( fa, بیژن جلالی; 1927 – January 2000) was a modern
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
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poet
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.
Jalali was born in
Tehran
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,
Iran
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. His works include: The Color of Water, Days, Dailies, Our Heart and the World, Play of Light, and The Water and the Sun.
See also
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Nima Yooshij
Nimā Yushij ( fa, نیما یوشیج) (11 November 1895 – 4 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiāri (), was an Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new p ...
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Persian literature
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References
نگاهی به جهان شاعرانهی بیژن جلالی
Persian-language poets
20th-century Iranian poets
1927 births
2000 deaths
20th-century poets
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