Golchin Gilani

Dr. Majdoddin Mirfakhraee
Native name	مجدالدین میرفخرایی
Born	(1910-01-01)1 January 1910 Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran
Died	20 December 1972(1972-12-20) (aged 62) London, England
Resting place	London
Pen name	Golchin Gilani
Occupation	Poet
Language	Persian
Nationality	Iran
Genre	Poetry
Spouse	Jalil-al-Sādāt Irān-doḵt Meḡnāṭ Šahin Jasuri Tabrizi[1]
Relatives	Houshang Ebtehaj (Cousin)

Majd-al-Din Mir-faḵrāʾi (Persian: مجدالدین میرفخرایی‎ January 1, 1910 in Rasht - December 20, 1972 in London) was an Iranian poet, who better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani (Persian: گلچین گیلانی‎).^[1]

Biography

His father, Sayyed Mahdi Mir-faḵrāʾi, was an Iranian Governor of Sabzevar County and Qom County. Majd-al-Din went to primary school in his birthplace and went to high school in Tehran. After getting his bachelor's degree, he moved to England and earned an MD, and spent the rest of his life in England.

In the 1940s, Gilani worked as a translator for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as writing, translating, and recording newsreel narration for Movietone News.^[1] Majd-al-Din specialized in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He died in London on December 20, 1972, and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in Southwest London (Block U, number 28) .

The Rain

The Rain (Persian: باران‎, Bārān), published in 1944, is probably his most famous poem.^[1] It's a long poem about his adventure in jungles in Rasht when he was ten years old. the first half of poem tells about the nice weather and the clear sky; then in the second-half It suddenly begins to rain : "slowly,the clouds won and it began to rain" and he says about how did he enjoy that weather; too; that becomes the result of the poem. the last lines tell : "so hear this; my kid : for an experienced man, the life, if good, if bad, is nice; is nice; is nice."

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