Mansour Hedayati

Mansour Hedayati
Born (1951-01-24)January 24, 1951
Savadkuh County, Mazandaran, Iran
Died (2009-02-09)February 9, 2009
Nationality Iranian
Occupation Poet, author, social critic
Parent(s) Hedayat

Mansour Hedayati (Persian: منصور هدایتی‎: Hedāyati) (January 24, 1951 – February 9, 2009) was an Iranian poet, author, social critic from Mazandaran Province. He mostly wrote naturalistic, social and critical poems in Persian and Mazandarani Language. Some of his poems have been published in some native journals and magazines.

Hedayati was born in Velila, Savadkuh County, and was the son of the "Hedayat" who was the village's nobleman. He also was ideologically a Reformist poet who his works deal with idealistic and naturalistic reform of human society.

His late work which named Becha Becha (Persian: مثنوی بچا بچا‎) is a Mazandarni language poetry collection have been published with Persian translation. That poetry book was published awhile after his death with a introduction which wrote by Ciyos Guran, a famous Iranian poet of Mazandaran Province. Ciyos Guran thanked Hedayati's services to the literature of the province on his letters in that book. Becha Becha is a flower which called Pamchal (Persian: گل پامچال‎) in Persian Language, and Primula in English.

Finally, Mansour Hedayati died in 2009 of a brain tumor disease in a hospital in Tehran the capital of Iran. After his death which was during Iranian presidential election, 2009, the electoral campaign of Mehdi Karoubi sent a condolence letter to his family and remains.

Early life

Childhood and education

Hedayati in his youth
Ciyos Guran is reading one of the Hedayati's works.

Mansour Hedayati son of "Hedayat" born in January 24, 2016 in a village called Velila in Savadkuh County , Mazandaran Province of Iran. Velila is a little village in the Keselian rural district. Hedayati started his elementary education in the center of the rural called Atu. After finishing elementary school, He continued his further education in the city of Shahi which after Islamic revolution called "Qaem Shahr", which is an Islamic name. After getting high school diploma, He got a job in the Central Alborz Coal Company. Nevertheless, he continued his graduate-level education in Persian literature and graduated from that discipline.

Bibliography

  • Becha Becha: Mazandarni poetry collection. Sari: Shelfin, 2009.
  • In the realm of the Sun. Qaem Shahr: Elm-o-Amal, 1999.
  • The straight path to civil society. Qaem Shahr: Elm-o-Amal, 1999.
  • Where is the sky?. Qaem Shahr: Elm-o-Amal, 2002.
  • The Greater World. Qaem Shahr: Elm-o-Amal, 1999.

Unpublished works

  • Sound of Hoopoe (Persian poetry collection)
  • As far as a world (in Persian)
  • In the edges of the life (in Persian)

See also

References

  • Hedayati, Mansour. 40 years of loveliness, 7-15. Sari: Shelfin, 2000. ISBN 9649270302.
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