Fereydoon Moshiri

Fereydoon Moshiri (September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000; ) was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.

A selection of his poems has been translated into English entitled With All my Tears by Ali Salami. Some of his other published works are as follows: 1957, Gonah-e Darya (The Sin of the Sea) 1958, Nayafteh (Undiscovered) 1960, Abr (The Cloud) 1970, Parvaz Ba Khorshid (Flying With the Sun) 1978, Bahar ra Bavar Kon (Believe the Spring) 1988, Ah Baran (Oh, the Rain) 2001, Ta Sobh-e Tabnak-e Ahura'ii (Until the Bright of Ahuric Dawn)

Last years Fereydoon Moshiri had been suffering from leukaemia and kidney failure for five years and died in "Tehran Clinic" hospital on October 24, 2000, at the age of 74.