Yadollah Maftun Amini

Yadollah Maftun Amini
Born June 12, 1926(1926-06-12)
Shahindezh , near Tabriz
Nationality Iranian
Years active 1957-

Yadollah Maftun Amini (born in 1926) is an Iranian poet.

His life

Yadollah Amini known as Maftun was born in 1926 in Shahindezh near to Tabriz. After completing primary and secondary school in his hometown, he moved to Tehran. He studied in the Tehran University's Faculty of Law.

He started with classic poetic style, but then specially after 1980s continued with modern and nonrhythmic forms of poetry.

His native language is Azeri Turkish and Ashiqli Karvan is his first Turkish poetry collection. Major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgias.

Works

Poem books

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