Hasan Alizadeh Iran

HASAN ALIZADEH was born in 1947 into a wealthy family based in the religious city of Mashhad. He embarked on a literary career, initially as a short story writer, and as a young fiction writer he published in the avant-garde fiction anthology Tablet (1967-1977).

With only two poetry collections to his name, Alizadeh’s talent is widely recognized in Iran, as shown by his having won the Modern Iranian Poetry Prize in 2002, but very little is known about him personally as he declines to give interviews or talk about himself.

(2022)