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Mehdi
Akhavān-Sāles
,
or
Akhavān-Sāless
(Persian:
مهدی
اخوان
ثالث)
(March
1,
1929
in
Mashhad,
Iran
–
August
26,
1990
in
Tehran,
Iran),
pen
name
Mim.
Omid
(Persian:
م.
امید,
meaning
M.
Hope)
was
a
prominent
Iranian
poet.
He
is
one
of
the
pioneers
of
Free
Verse
(New
Style
Poetry)
in
the
Persian
language.
Mehdi
Akhavan
Sales
was
born
on
1
March
1929,
in
Mashhad,
Khorasan
Province,
Iran
His
father,
Ali,
originally
from
Fahraj
in
Yazd
province,
was
an
apothecary
(ʿaṭṭār),
and
his
mother,
Maryam,
a
native
of
Khorasan.
Akhavan
Sales
had
to
give
up
an
interest
in
music
to
appease
his
father.
He
finished
his
elementary
education
in
Mashhad
and
studied
welding
in
the
city's
Technical
School
(honarestān)
in
1941.
It
was
in
Mashhad
that
he
was
familiarized
with
the
elementary
principles
of
classical
Persian
prosody
by
one
of
his
instructors
in
the
technical
school
in
Mashad,
named
Parviz
Kāviān
Jahromi,
(Akhavan,
2003c,
p.
386).
Afterwards,
Akhavan
soon
found
his
way
to
the
literary
circles
of
Mashad.
One
of
the
most
notable
of
these
circles
was
the
Khorasan
Literary
Society.
He
chose
M.
Omid
(Omid
means
hope)
as
his
pen
name
and
as
he
grew
older,
he
began
to
play
with
the
meaning
of
his
poetic
name
with
a
sense
of
irony.[1]
Akhavan,
along
with
a
few
others,
formed
Bahār,
a
literary
circle
more
in
tune
with
modernist
trends
in
poetry.
Later
he
became
involved
in
leftist
politics
and
a
member
of
the
provincial
committee
of
the
recently
established
Youth
Organization
of
the
Tudeh
Party.[1]
Following
his
education,
Akhavan
moved
to
Tehran
(1949)
and
worked
as
a
teacher.
He
married
his
cousin
Ḵadijeh
(Irān)
in
1950
and
they
had
six
children:
Laleh,
Luli,
Tus,
Tanasgol,
Zardošt,
and
Mazdak
ʿAli.[1]
Akhavan’s
first
collection
of
poetry,
Arḡanun
(The
organ;
Figure
3),
was
published
in
1951
and
when
the
government
of
prime
minister
Mohammad
Mosaddegh
was
toppled
by
a
coup,
he
took
part
in
political
activities
and
was
imprisoned
along
with
Nima
Yooshij
and
other
activists.
Akhavan’s
second
poetry
collection
named
Zemestān
(Winter)
was
published
in
1956.
After
his
release
from
prison
in
1957,
he
started
to
work
in
radio,
and
soon
after
was
transferred
to
Khouzestan
to
work
in
TV.
Later
on,
he
taught
literature
on
radio
and
TV
and
at
the
university.
After
the
1979
Iranian
Revolution
he
was
granted
membership
to
the
Iranian
Academy
of
Artists
and
Writers.
In
1981
he
was
forced
to
retire
from
government
service
without
pay.
In
1990,
following
an
invitation
from
the
cultural
organization
in
Germany,
he
traveled
abroad
for
the
first
time.
Few
months
after
his
return,
he
died
in
Tehran.
He
is
buried
on
the
grounds
of
the
mausoleum
of
Ferdowsi
in
Tus.
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