Yadollah Maftun Amini
Yadollah Maftun Amini was an Iranian poet.
Early life
Yadollah Amini, whose literary nickname was Maftun, was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran. He did his early education up to the end of high school in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in Tehran University's Faculty of Law.
Maftun Amini started with classical-style Persian Poetry, but gradually proceeded to modern and non-rhythmic Persian Poetry in the 1980s. Other than poems in Persian, Maftun wrote poems in his mother tongue, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan was Maftun's first Azerbaijani poetry collection. A major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgia.
Maftun Amini died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 96.
Works
- Poem collections
- * Ashiqli Karvan, 1960s, Tabriz
- * Anarestan, 1967, Tabriz, Ebn-e-sina Publishers
- * Ashiqli Karvan, 1979
- * Nahang ya Mowj, Selections of Kulak and Anarestan
- * Fasl-e-Penhan, Poem selections
- * Man va Khazan-e-toh, 2006, Amrud Publishers
- * Shab-e-hazar-o-doh,,