Cyrus Atabay

Cyrus Atabay was born in Tehran as the son of Hadi Atabay and Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi, the first daughter of Reza Shah.[1] Before turning 8 years old, Cyrus was sent to Berlin by his father to attend school; he lived in Germany during World War II.[1] After the war, he lived in Iran and Switzerland.[1] In Switzerland, Cyrus's talent for poetry was noted by author Max Rychner, and in Germany by Gottfried Benn; both wrote positively about him.[1] His works were published for the first time in 1948 in Die Tat ("The deed"), a Swiss journal.[1] In 1951, Cyrus returned to Germany from Switzerland and studied literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1952–1960). As a student in Munich, his "first three poetry collections" were published, in 1956, 1958 and 1960 respectively.[1] In 1965, Cyrus published his first work of translation, consisting of a selection of ghazals originally written by the Medieval Persian poet Hafez.[1] In 1978, Cyrus moved to London where he met Elias Canetti and Erich Fried. He moved back to Germany in 1983 where he lived until his death.[1]

• 1957: Hugo-Jacobi-Preis[1]
• 1983: full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts))
• 1990: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize[1]
• 1993: Member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (the German Academy for Language and Literature)

• Düsseldorf: Classen Verlag، 1971. Die Worte der Ameisen/ Cyrus Atabay 100p
• Hamburg: Classen Verlag, Gesange von Morgen: neue Iranische lyrik/ Cyrus Atabay 1968, 126p
• Die schönsten Gedichte aus dem klassischen Persien\ Hafis, Rumi, Omar Chajjam; Übertragen von Cyrus Atabay; Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort Versehen von Kurt Scharf

• Rezvani, Saeid (2014). "ATABAY, CYRUS". Encyclopaedia Iranica.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)