Esmail Khoi or Esmail Khoyi (; 30 June 1938 – 25 May 2021) was an Iranian poet and writer. He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s.
Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Impe ...
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He was a member of the Iranian Writers' Association. His poems have been translated in many languages, including English, French, Russian, German and Ukrainian. He wrote a poetry book in English called "Voice of Exile", "What is shall be what is not". He is the first Iranian writer to be awarded the Coburg Rückert Prizen for literature, which he received in 2010.
Selected bibliography
*''Edges of Poetry:Selected Poetry'' (Blue Logos Press, 1995)
*''Outlandia:Song of Exile'' (Nik Publishers, 1999)
References
External links
Listen to Esmail Khoi reading his poetry- a British Library recording, 24 February 2009.
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1938 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Iranian poets
Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Mashhad
Iranian Writers Association members
21st-century Iranian poets