List of Persian poets and authors
This list includes writers and poets who have written works in the Persian language. It is arranged chronologically and includes people who have lived in both the modern states of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, in which the Persian is the official language today in one of its varieties, as well as in other countries in the regions Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia or life.
Before the Islamic invasion
- Zarathustra ( زرتشت ), old Iranian prophet and author of the Avestan Gathas ( about 1200 BC)
- Mani ( مانی ) mitteliranischer religious leader and founder of Manichaeism (ca. 210-276 )
- At Shihkao, Parthian translator.
The majority of ancient Persian literature has been lost in the course of the Islamic conquest of Persia.
From the Islamic Invasion to the 8th century
Morteza Motahhari lists the names of dozens of Iranians who contributed to the creation of Arabic, Persian or Pahlavi literature during the Umayyadenherrschaft in Iran. These include:
- Abdullah Ibn al - Muqaffa ( ابن مقفع )
- Bukhari ( بخاری )
- Sibawayh ( سیبویه )
- Dinawari ( دینوری )
- Baladhuri ( بلاذری )
- Naubakht ( نوبخت )
9th century
- Rudaki ( رودکی )
- Mansur al - Hallaj ( منصور حلاج )
- Ibn Chafif ( ابن خفیف )
10th Century
- Firdausi ( فردوسی ), poet ( 925-1020 )
- Abusaeid Abolkheir ( ابوسعید ابوالخیر )
- Rudaki ( رودکی )
- Abu Mansur Daqiqi ( ابومنصور دقیقی )
- Abu l -Fadl Bayhaqi ( ابوالفضل بیهقی ), historian
- Unsuri ( عنصری )
- Rabi'ah Quzdari ( ربیعه قزداری ) - the first poet of the New Persian literature
- Asjadi ( عسجدی )
- Kisai Marvazi ( کسائی مروزی )
- Abu Shakur Balchi ( ابوشکور بلخی )
- Ayyuqi ( عیوقی )
11th Century
- Asad Gorgani
- Asjadi
- Firdausi, poet (925-1020)
- Umar Khayyam, poet (1048-1131)
- Hujviri (d. 1073 )
- Abusaeid Abolkheir
- Sanai Ghaznavi
- Abd l -Qadir Jilani
- Manutschihri
- Nasreddin
- Sanaayi
- Abu l -Fadl Bayhaqi, historians
- Nasir -i Chusrau, traveler and poet
- Farruchi Sistani ( فرخی سيستانی ), poet
- Baba Tahir Oryan
- Abu l - Faraj Runi
- Nizam al -Mulk
- Mu'izzi
- Azraqi
- Masud Sa'd Salman
- Uthman Muchtari
- Qatran Tabrizi
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Asadi Tusi
- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
- Muhammad Ghazali
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
12th Century
- Adib Sabir
- Am'aq
- Anvari
- Fariduddin Attar, poet (about 1130- ca. 1230)
- Omar Khayyám, poet (1048-1131)
- Nezami, poet (ca. 1140 -ca. 1120)
- Saadi, poets ( 1184-1283/1291? )
- Sheikh Ruzbehan
- Abdul Qadir Jilani
- Nasreddin
- Chaqani
- Sanaayi
- Muhammad Aufi
- Falaki Schirvani
- Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
- Sanai Ghaznavi, poet
- Mu'izzi
- Uthman Muchtari
- Mahsati, Dichteress
- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
13th Century
- Fariduddin Attar, poet (about 1130- ca. 1230)
- Saadi, poets ( 1184-1283/1291? )
- Amir Khosravi Dehlavi
- Shams -e Tabrizi
- Sheikh Ruzbehan
- Zahed Gilani
- Khwaju Kermani
- Mahmoud Shabistari
- Nasreddin
- Najmeddin Razi
- Muhammad Aufi
- Qazi Beiza'i
- Auhadi of Maragheh
- Auhaduddin Kermani
- Ibn -i - Yamin
- Ata al -Mulk Dschuwaini
14th Century
- Hafez, poet ( * ca 1310-1325 )
- Amir Khusrau Dehlavi, Poet Laureate and important chronicler of the Sultanate of Delhi.
- Khwaju Kermani
- Mahmoud Shabistari
- Nasreddin
- Obeid Zakani
- Maulana Shahin Shirazi
- Junayd Shirazi
- Auhadi of Maragheh
15th Century
16th century
- Urfi
- Talib Amoli
- Faizi Fayyazi, Chancellor, chronicler and poet laureate of the Indian Mughal emperor Akbar
- Zuhuri, Poet Laureate of the Adil Shahi of Bijapur
17th Century
- Ghani Kashmiri (d. 1668)
- Mirza Muhammad Ali Sa'ib ( died 1669)
- Abul Qader Abdul Ma'aanee Bedil (1642-1720)
- Zeb -un- Nissa Makhfi (1637 - 1702)
18th century
- Hazin Lahiji ( حزین لاهیجی )
- Hatef Esfehani, poet ( هاتف اصفهانی )
19th century
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar -
- Iraj Mirza
- Farrokhi Yazdi
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Aref Qazvini
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (If indeed famous as Urdu poets, esteemed himself but his Persian poems more. )
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist and journalist
- Hassan Roshdie
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
- Ebrahim Poordavood, ancient languages , Avesta
20th century to today
- Ali Mohammad Afghani ( علی محمد افغانی )
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour
- Ahmad- Reza Ahmadi ( احمد رضا احمدی )
- Jalal Al -e -Ahmad ( جلال آل احمد )
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh, poet, novelist
- Ahmad Allahyari, poet, journalist
- Bozorg Alavi ( بزرگ علوی )
- Reza Amirkhani ( رضا امیرخانی )
- Zhaleh Amouzegar ( ژاله آموزگار )
- Sadegh Angha ( صادق عنقا ), Sufi master, poet and scholar
- Nader Angha ( نادر عنقا ), Sufi master, poet and scholar
- Mohammad- Taqi Bahar ( محمد تقی بهار )
- Sayed Elan Bahar, from Afghanistan
- Reza Baraheni, critics
- Massoud Behnoud ( مسعود بهنود ), Journalist
- Samad Behrangi ( صمد بهرنگی )
- Sadegh Choubak ( صادق چوبک )
- Hamid Dabashi, scholar and cultural critic
- Simin Dāneshwar ( سیمین دانشور )
- Najaf Daryabandari ( نجف دريابندری ), translator
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ( محمود دولت آبادی )
- Hushang Ebtehaj
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Anahita Firouz, author of The Hidden Garden
- Houshang Golshiri ( هوشنگ گلشیری )
- Soleiman Haim
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
- Sadegh Hedayat ( صادق هدایت )
- Arash Hejazi ( آرش حجازی ), essayist and translator
- Mohammad Hejazi, novelist and screenwriter
- Muhammad Iqbal of Lahore 's main Muslim poet of the Indian independence movement and after his death, national poet of Pakistan. Also wrote in Urdu.
- Mohsen Jamal
- Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh ( محمد علی جمالزاده )
- Taraneh Javanbakht ( ترانه جوانبخت ), poet
- Hasan Husseini
- Mohsen Kadivar ( محسن کدیور ), theologian
- Ahmad Kamyabi Mask ( احمد کامیابی مسک )
- Shahram Karimi, poet
- Ahmad Kasravi ( احمد کسروی )
- Esmail Khoi ( اسماعیل خویی )
- Emad Khorasani ( عماد خراسانی )
- Mahmoud Kianush ( محمود کیانوش )
- Zabihollah Mansoori, translator ( ذبیح الله منصوری )
- Iraj Mirza ( ایرج میرزا )
- Houshang Moradi Kermani ( هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی )
- Mohammad Mokhtari ( محمد مختاری )
- Gholam Hossein Mosahab, Enzyclopädist ( غلامحسین مصاحب )
- Morteza Motahhari, theologian ( مرتضی مطهری )
- Rahi Mo'ayyeri, poet ( رهی معیری )
- Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist ( ابراهیم نبوی )
- Nader Nader Pour ( نادر نادرپور )
- Azar Nafisi ( آذر نفیسی )
- Said Nafisi, scholar and poet
- Khosro Naghed ( خسرو ناقد ), translator
- Majid M. Naini, translator, speaker
- Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist
- Saadat Noury , poet and journalist ( ىر ون ت د اعس )
- Parwin Pazwak, from Afghanistan
- Iraj Pezeshkzad
- Yar- Ali Pour- Moghaddam, Writer
- Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist.
- Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
- Aref Qazvini ( عارف قزوینی )
- Iraj Rahmani, novelist ( ايرج رحمانی )
- Nosrat Rahmani ( نصرت رحمانی )
- Moniro Ravanipur, narrator
- Yasmina Reza
- Hassan Roshdie
- Bahraam Saadeqi
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Gholam Hossein Sa'edi
- Leila Sarahat Roschani, from Afghanistan
- Marjane Satrapi, novelist
- Sohrab Sepehri ( سهراب سپهری )
- Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani, poet
- Ali Shariati, sociologist and theologian
- Dariush Shayegan
- Mahdi Shojaii ( مهدی شجاعی )
- Daryush Shokof
- Abdulkarim Soroush, philosopher
- Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat - Tabrizi, poet
- Goli Taraghghi
- Fereidoon Tavallali
- Bozorgmehr Vaziri, poet, journalist, scholar, Christian Evangelist
- Farrokhi Yazdi ( فرخی یزدی )
- Kalimollah Tavahhodi
- Nahid Bagheri Goldsmith ( ناهید باقری - گلداشمید )
- Ahmadreza Ahmadi ( احمدرضا احمدی )
- Mehdi Akhavan - Sales ( مهدی اخوان ثالث )
- Yahya Alavi fard ( یحیی علوی فرد )
- Ahmad Allahyari ( احمد اللهياری )
- Nader Angha ( نادر عنقا )
- Sadegh Angha ( صادق عنقا )
- Massoud Atai ( مسعود عطايی )
- Manouchehr Atashi ( منوچهر آتشی )
- Pezhman Bakhtiari, ( پژمان بختیاری )
- Simin Behbahani
- Ustad Abdul Haq Betab, from Afghanistan
- Hushang Ebtehaj (HA Sayeh ) ( هوشنگ ابتهاج )
- Mirzade Eshghi ( میرزاده عشقی )
- Parvin E'tesami
- Forough Farokhzad ( فروغ فرخزاد )
- Ata Gilani ( عطا گیلانی )
- Muhammad Iqbal ( محمد اقبال )
- Jalaluddin Jalal ( جلال الدین جلال ), Afghanistan
- Siavash Kasraie ( سیاوش کسرایی )
- Khalilullah Khalili, Afghanistan
- Hadi Khorsandi ( هادی خرسندی )
- Abolghasem Lahouti ( ابوالقاسم لاهوتی )
- Shams Langeroodi ( شمس لنگرودی )
- Meher Baba ( مهربابا )
- Mirza Agha Asgari ( Mani ) ( میرزاآقا عسگری - مانی )
- Hossein Monzavi ( حسین منزوی )
- Hamid Mosadegh ( حمید مصدق )
- Fereydoun Moshiri ( فریدون مشیری )
- Granaz Mousavi ( گراناز موسوی )
- Naanaam ( نانام )
- Nader Nader Pour ( نادر نادرپور )
- Manouchehr Saadat Noury ( منوچهر سعادت نوری )
- Behzad Pakrooh ( بهزاد پاکروح )
- Nosrat Rahmani ( نصرت رحمانی )
- Heshmatolla Riazi
- Gholamreza Rouhani ( غلامرضا روحانی )
- Yadollah Royaee ( یدالله رویایی )
- Amir Sagharichi - Raha ( امیر ساقریچی متخلص به رها )
- Sohrab Sepehri ( سهراب سپهری )
- Mohammad Reza Shafiei - Kadkani ( محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی )
- Mohammad Hossein Shahriar ( محمد حسين شهريار )
- Ahmad Shamlou ( احمد شاملو )
- Bijan Taraghi ( بیژن ترقی )
- Bozorgmehr Vaziri ( بزرگمهر وزیری )
- Heydar Yaghma ( حیدر یغما )
- Nima Yushij ( نیما یوشیج )
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub ( عبدالحسین زرین کوب )
- Nadia Anjuman, Afghanistan
- Sa'aduddin Ansari, from Afghanistan
- Hanzala -e Badghis, Afghanistan
- Hazrat Abul Faizi, from Afghanistan
- Razeq Faani, from Afghanistan
- Kahi -e -Kabul, Afghanistan
- Aminullah Khurasani, from Afghanistan
- Youssof Kohzad, from Afghanistan
- Mehrdel Khan Mashriqi, from Afghanistan
- Ghulam Muhammad Ghubar, Afghanistan
- Bibi Mukhfi -e- Badakhshani, from Afghanistan
- Latif Nazemi, from Afghanistan
- Mahmud Tarzi, Afghanistan