Hasan Alizadeh

HASAN ALIZADEH was born
in the religious city of
Mashhad, Iran, in 1947.
He embarked on a literary
career, initially as a short
story writer, and as a young
fiction writer he published
in the avant-garde fiction
antology Tablet (1967-1977).

With only two poetry
collections to his name,
Alizadeh’s talent is widely
recognized in Iran, as shown
by his having won the Modern
Iranian Poetry Prize in 2002,
but very litt le is known about
him personally as he declines
to give interviews or talk
about himself.