Latif Nazemi (born 1947) is a Persian

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and

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from

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

.Faez, Sharif "Latif Nazemi: A Modern Afghan Poet and Critic"
/ref> He currently lives in

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and works for Radio Deutsche Welle in

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. Nazemi was born in

Herat Herāt (; Dari/Pashto: هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Se ...

and graduated from

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; ) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd District of the capital Kabul near the Ministry of Higher Education. It was founded in 1931 by King Mohammed Nadir Shah, wh ...

, where he later taught. He is a student of " Persian literature" and has published a number of works in the field, including: ''Modern Dari Literature in Afghanistan''.

Life

Latif Nazemi first visited in Herat school. After high school he studied Persian literature (

Dari Dari (; endonym: ), Dari Persian (, , or , ), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language;Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian ...

) at the University of Kabul . He received his doctorate and taught the subject later as a lecturer. From 1982 to 1984 Nazemi taught Persian literature at

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. Latif Nazemi has lived since 1990 with his wife and four sons in exile in

and works for the

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radio station. His book of poems Milad-e Sabz (Green Birth) was published in 1975 and received the Afghan prize for poetry. In addition to many published books, Latif Nazemi has also published several hundred articles in the Afghan and international press.

Bibliography

* The green birth (Milad-e Sabz, 1975) * Shadow and Moor (Saya wa Mordab, 1987) * From the garden to the "Ghazal" (Az bagh ta ghazal, 2001) * Mirrors don't lie (Ayeneha durugh nemiguyand, 2014) "Mirrors don't lie on BBC Persian"
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External links

''dami ba nazemi'' program
Tajik poets Persian-language poets 1947 births Living people Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin {{Afghanistan-poet-stub