21 Facts About Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri was a notable Iranian poet and painter.

Sohrab Sepehri is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad.

Sohrab Sepehri grew up in a family that was into art and poetry.

Sohrab Sepehri's father worked in a post office and loved art.

Sohrab Sepehri missed his only brother who was his only playmate in childhood, too.

Sohrab Sepehri completed his elementary and secondary education in Kashan and moved to Tehran in 1943 to study at a teachers' college.

Sohrab Sepehri worked as a teacher for a few years, then enrolled as a student in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and graduated with honours.

Sohrab Sepehri soon published his first collection of poems named "The Death of Color", followed by a second collection, "Life Sleeps".

Sohrab Sepehri was very talented in fine arts and his paintings were displayed in many European exhibits.

Sohrab Sepehri's paintings are about nature; one of them was sold in Tehran in 2018.

Sohrab Sepehri never married and his grave is frequently visited by many art lovers.

Sohrab Sepehri sometimes worked hanging from tall buildings to wash the apartments' windows.

Sohrab Sepehri had his own style of writing poetry, using short sentences rather than long ones, the latter having been frequently used in Persian poetry for centuries.

Sohrab Sepehri explains that he doesn't blindly do his religious duties.

In most of his poems, Sohrab Sepehri introduces a new form of literature by using romanticism and symbolism.

Sohrab Sepehri used a special symbolism in these poems that makes the objects talk to the reader, rather than describing those objects.

Sohrab Sepehri's poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values.

Sohrab Sepehri achieved a new technique in painting which is called Texture, and was unknown to other painters for a long time.

Sohrab Sepehri used to create most of his pieces of art in isolated places like "Ghariyeh Chenar" and the deserts around Kashan.

Sohrab Sepehri's poetry has been translated into many languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Dutch and Russian.

An English translation by Ali Salami of some of Sohrab Sepehri's poems was published in 2003.