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A Tribute to Sadeq Hedayat
Hedayat's biography, photographs, genealogy and artwork. English translations and reviews of his work.
Ahmad Shamlu
The official site of Ahmad Shamlu, Iran's great contemporary poet.
Alireza Behnam
http://alirezabehnam.tripod.com
Poetry, news, and bibliography of this Iranian journalist and language poet.
Art Arena: Writer's Corner
http://www.art-arena.com/literature.htm
Provides English translations of modern Persian poetry and prose. Features works by Mahmud Kianush and Pari Mansouri.
Forugh Farrokhzad
http://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/
Forum for all those who have been touched by Forugh's poetry, life and liberation.
Hafiz On Love
Poetry of Hafiz in the original Persian and in English translations, biography, art gallery and links.
Persian Poetry: Verses from Rumi and Khayyam
http://blissbat.net/rambles/persian.html
English translations of and information about Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi and Omar Khayyam, including side-by-side comparisons of various translations.
Persian Poets and Poetry
http://www.bestirantravel.com/culture/poetry/poetry.html
Life and poetry of famous Persian poets, Rumi, Hafez, Khayam, and Saadi.
Shah-nama - Book of Kings
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/firdausi.html
E-text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Text Collection.
Shahnama - The Epic of Kings
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/shahnama.txt
As translated by Helen Zimmern (1883), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
The Art of Sadeq Hedayat
http://www.iranian.com/Arts/April98/Hedayat/s_hedayat.html
Artwork by a great Iranian writer.
The Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi
http://classics.mit.edu/Ferdowsi/kings.html
From the Internet Classics Archive. Translated by Helen Zimmern.
The Poetry of Iran
http://theliteraryreview.org/tlr-ira1.htm
Selection of poems by Iranians. From the Literary Review.
Treasures of Persian Literature
http://www2.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/far/hobbies/iran/
English translations of Gulistan of Saadi, Bustan of Saadi, Robaiyyat of Hafez, Ghazal (Sonnets) of Hafez, Masnavi-e-Ma'navi (spiritual couplets of Rumi), Robaiyyat (Quatrains) of Omar Khayyam and Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Famous Persian poems are also available.
