18 Facts About Siavash Kasrai

Siavash Kasrai was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist.

Siavash Kasrai is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s.

Siavash Kasrai was born on February 25,1927, in Isfahan, Iran, into a family of officials, some with a serious interest in literature.

Siavash Kasrai graduated from the University of Tehran, Faculty of Law, in 1950, and did his military service at the Military Academy.

Siavash Kasrai was shortly imprisoned in the aftermath of 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Siavash Kasrai was a founding member of the Iranian Writers' Association and one of its elected secretaries in the first four years of its existence, from 1968 to 1971.

Siavash Kasrai took part in 1977 Tehran Goethe-Institut nights of poetry readings, a noted public event with dissident overtones in the pre-Iranian Revolution period.

Siavash Kasrai was elected to the Tudeh Party Political Bureau in 1986.

Siavash Kasrai resigned from the party's Bureau in 1988 and from its Central Committee in 1990.

Siavash Kasrai's last major work, published in 1995, was a public expression of disappointment with Communist activity.

Siavash Kasrai had an intense social life, informed by his intellectual interests and an ethic of solidarity.

Siavash Kasrai was, at various times, in close personal relationships with such literary figures as Iraj Afshar, Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Houshang Ebtehaj, Mahmoud Etemadzadeh, Forough Farrokhzad, Morteza Keyvan, Nader Naderpour, Shahrokh Meskoob, Fereydoon Moshiri, Brayim Younisi and Nima Yooshij.

Siavash Kasrai held informal eclectic salons at both his office and his home on an almost daily basis from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Siavash Kasrai died on February 8,1996, in Vienna and is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Siavash Kasrai's works were first published in the following volumes :.

Siavash Kasrai's version is the first epic poem in Nima Yooshij's style, or more generally the first epic instance of Persian new poetry.

Mohreye Sorkh, Siavash Kasrai's last publication, is a mirror image of Arashe Kamangir.

Indeed, connecting his poem to current suffering in his country, Siavash Kasrai's preface speaks of "the serious mistakes of benevolent people whose actions proceeded from fascination instead of knowledge, hurried and shortsighted, leading to the verge of destruction, and now facing the heavy price to pay".