Nima Yooshij

Nima Yooshij
Native name
نیما یوشیج
BornAli Esfandiari
(1895-11-11)11 November 1895
Yush, Nur, Mazandaran, Qajar Persia (present-day Iran)
Died4 January 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 64)
Shemiran, Tehran, Iran
Resting placeImamzadeh Abdollah, Ray (until 2007)
Nima's House, Yush (from 2007)
Pen nameNima
LanguagePersian
NationalityIranian
GenreModernist poetry
Literary movementShe'r-e Nimaa'i
Notable worksAfsaneh, Quqnūs, The Red Star of Dawn

Nima Yooshij or Nimā Yushij (11 November 1895 – 6 January 1960; Persian: نیما یوشیج),[1][2] also called Nimā (نیما), néema Ali Esfandiari (علی اسفندیاری), was a prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called she'r-e now (شعر نو, lit. "new poetry"), also known as She'r-e Nimaa'i (شعر نیمایی, lit "Nima poetry") in his honour after his death. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry.

He died of pneumonia in Shemiran, in the northern part of Tehran and was buried in his native village of Yush, Nur County, Mazandaran, as he had willed.[2][3]

  1. ^ "۱۳ دی ۱۳۳۸ خورشیدی، درگذشت نیما یوشیج، پدر شعر پارسی" (in Persian). 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Nima Yooshij Biography - Biography of Nima Yooshij". Poem Hunter. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  3. ^ M. Fomeshi, Behnam. "Nima Yushij". researchgate.net.