Ahmad NikTalab (, ; 22 April 1934 – 3 March 2020), also known as Yavar Hamedani ( ), was an Iranian poet, author, and linguist.

Life

He was born in

Hamedan Hamadan ( ; , ) is a mountainous city in western Iran. It is located in the Central District of Hamadan County in Hamadan province, serving as the capital of the province, county, and district. As of the 2016 Iranian census, it had a po ...

. After education and living in Hamedan for the first part of his life, he went to

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to continue his education in

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. His first articles were published in Armaghan Magazines. His first poems were published at the age of thirteen. He has been active in the literary associations of Hamedan and Tehran, including the Iranian

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. He was also a prominent member of the Iranian Literary Association. Rahi Moayeri,

Mehrdad Avesta Mehrdad Avesta (''Mohammad Reza Rahmani'', ; 8 August 1930 – 6 May 1991) was an Iranian poet. He was born in Borujerd (on 8 August 1930) into a literature and art-oriented family. When he was young, he changed his first name from Mohammad Reza ...

, Hossein Monzavi, etc. were among his acquaintances and colleagues. From the 1930s, Ahmad Niktalab began his work with the Radio Organization, along with figures such as Rahi Moayeri, many of whose songs have been sung on music ever since. Many of Hamedani's local songs have been translated into many Eastern languages while being

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on Iranian radio programs. He is a member of the Niktalab family. His eldest son is

Babak Niktalab Babak NikTalab ( ; born 30 June 1967) is an Iranian poet and writer known for his work in juvenile literature. He won the Golden Cypress for the 5th edition of the Fajr International Poetry Festival and was one of the winners of the first Abbas Y ...

who is a Persian poet and her daughter is

Poopak Niktalab Poopak NikTalab (, ; born 19 May 1970), also and a lot , is an Iranian education theorist, author and literary researcher in children's literature. Life She was born in 1970 in Tehran in a cultural and literary family.Payame Zan Magazine, Augu ...

. He worked voluntarily at Poetry Council at Office of Poetry and Music of

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After retirement to preserve music in Iran; His office had been in

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for 25 years. He died of a heart attack in Tehran at the age of 85. He was buried in the artists' section of

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Partial bibliography

* ''Ganj Nameh'' Persian lyrics collection, Tehran: Setavand Yazd, 2001 * ''Saye Sare Alvand'' (or Sāyahʹsār-i Alvand), Persian lyrics collection,

: Sūrah-i Mihr, ublished 2004 or 2005This book has some poetries in Hamedani dialect. * ''Selected Poems'', Tehran: Neystan Publishing * ''Masnavi soroud farda'' ("Tomorrow's Anthem") * ''From

to Tehran: History of Tehran'', Tehran: Tehran Municipality Publications

Part of his poem

One of his famous Poetries is "''Mehraban Mah''" (means: The kind moon): The night came, my kind moon did not come The bright light of my way did not come ... The dawn came and the sun blossomed like a flower But the flower of morning's garden didn't come...

Poetry collection

Divan or Poetry collection of Yavar Hamedani, published by the Iranian Pen Association in a series of books by veterans of contemporary literature, includes poems by Yavar Hamedani in various formats of

lyric Lyric may refer to: * Lyrics, the words, often in verse form, which are sung, usually to a melody, and constitute the semantic content of a song * Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view * Lyric, from t ...

ode An ode (from ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. A classic ode is structu ...

quatrain A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four Line (poetry), lines. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Persia, Ancient India ...

Mathnavi Mathnawi ( ), also spelled masnavi, mesnevi or masnawi, is a kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, or more specifically "a poem based on independent, internally rhyming lines". Most mathnawi poems follow a meter of eleven, or occasionally ten ...

, composition of quatrain,

couplet In poetry, a couplet ( ) or distich ( ) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there ...

and native poems in Hamedani dialect. The book was unveiled a year after his death anniversary.

References

University of Tehran alumni 2020 deaths Iranian literary scholars Academic staff of the University of Tehran 1934 births Mystic poets Sufi poets 20th-century Persian-language poets 20th-century Iranian poets 21st-century Iranian poets 21st-century Iranian writers Iranian songwriters Iranian lyricists Iranian male poets Iranian Sufis Muslim poets Muslim panegyrists Male songwriters NikTalab family {{Iran-poet-stub