Mana Aghaee (Persian: مانا آقایی), born in 1973 in Bushehr, Iran, is a distinguished Persian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian Studies.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Career
• 3 Published works
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Background

Mana Aghaee was born in 1973 into a middle-cl* family in Iran. Since 1987 she lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

She is the daughter of the Iranian scholar and poet Shirzad Aghaee of Shiraz. She is married to Ashk Dahlén, Swedish scholar and translator of Persian literature, since 1994.

Career

Mana Aghaee has a M.A. degree in Iranian languages from Uppsala University, Sweden, and is a specialist in modern Persian literature.

She regularly contributes to Persian literary journals and magazines inside and outside of Iran. Her poems have also been translated into several languages, among them, English, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic and German.

She is a pioneer writer in Persian of short form poetry, Haiku and Tanka, originally from *an. She has also contributed to introducing Swedish as well as Persian poetry, especially poetry from *an and Korea, in Persian.

She was the founder and co-producer of Sherophone, the first biweekly podcast of Persian poetry in 2010.

Published works

Collections of poetry

• Dar emtedād-i parvāz, Vällingby, 1991.
• Marg agar labhā-ye torā dāsht, Bushehr, 2003.
• Man 'Isā ebn-e khodam, Stockholm, 2007.
• Zemestān mashugh-e man ast, Stockholm, 2012.

Aghaee's work can be found in the following anthologies:

• Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World, ed. Niloufar Talebi, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
• The Poetry of Iranian Women: A Contemporary Anthology, ed. Sheema Kalbasi, Reelcontent Publishing, 2008.
• Rattapallax nr 13- Endangered Languages & Poetry, ed. Catherine Feltcher, New York: Rattapallax Press, 2006.
• Private nr 42 - International Review of Photographs and Texts, Saint-Brisson: Oriano Sportelli Publisher, Autumn 2008.
• "Eminent Poetesses of Persian", ed. S.R.M. Chopra, Kolkata: Iran Society, 2010.

Literary Translations

• Havāpeymā-i be ārāmi-ye sanjāqak (contemporary East Asian poetry), Tehran, 2014. (Persian)
• Docharkhe-ye bāldār (150 Swedish haiku), Ahvaz, 2018. (Persian)

Bibliographical Works

• Lexikon över iranska författare i Sverige (A Bibliography of Iranian Writers in Sweden), Uppsala, 2002. (Swedish)
• Ketabshenāsi-ye she'r-e zanān-e irān (A Bibliography of Iranian Women Poets), Stockholm, 2007. (Persian)

Academic Articles

• Den persiska litteraturen i Sverige (Persian Literature in Sweden), Litteraturens gränsland. Invandrar- och minoritetslitteratur i nordiskt perspektiv, ed. S. Gröndahl, Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2002. (Swedish)
• Mosaikens turkosa eko: persisk modern poesi (Introduction to Modern Persian Poetry), Stockholm, 2002. (Swedish)

See also

• Poetry portal

• List of Iranian women

References

External links

• زمزمه های دختر سافو Whispers of Sapho´s Daughter - Official Website
• Immigrant Writers in Sweden - Mana Aghaee
• Other Voices Poetry - Mana Aghaee's Biography
• Voices in Exile - Article in Tehran Bureau

Novels

• Ali Mohammad Afghani
• Ghazaleh Alizadeh
• Bozorg Alavi
• Reza Amirkhani
• Mahshid Amirshahi
• Gh*em Hashemi Nezhad
• Reza Baraheni
• Simin Daneshvar
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
• Soudabeh Fazaeli
• Reza Gh*emi
• Mohammad Hanif (Iranian writer)
• Houshang Golshiri
• Aboutorab Khosravi
• Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei
• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Shahriyar Mandanipour
• Abbas Maroufi
• Mansour Koushan
• Iraj Pezeshkzad

Short stories

• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
• Shamim Bahar
• Sadeq Chubak
• Abolh*an Etessami
• Javad Mojabi
• Simin Daneshvar
• Nader Ebrahimi
• Ebrahim Golestan
• Houshang Golshiri
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
• Aboutorab Khosravi
• Mostafa Mastoor
• Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi
• Houshang Moradi Kermani
• Bijan Najdi
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
• Bahram Sadeghi
• Goli Taraqqi

Plays

• Reza Abdoh
• Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh
• Mohsen Yalfani
• Bahram Beyzai
• Bahman Forsi
• Amir Reza Koohestani
• Alireza Koushk Jalali
• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
• Bijan Mofid
• Hengameh Mofid
• Abbas Nalbandian
• Akbar Radi
• Pari Saberi
• Mirza Aqa Tabrizi
• Mohammad Yaghoubi

Screenplays

• Saeed Aghighi
• Mohammad Reza Aslani
• Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
• Bahram Beyzai
• Hajir Darioush
• Pouran Derakhshandeh
• Asghar Farhadi
• Bahman Farmanara
• Farrokh Ghaffari
• Behrouz Gharibpour
• Bahman Ghobadi
• Fereydun Gole
• Ebrahim Golestan
• Ali Hatami
• Abolfazl Jalili
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
• Abdolreza Kahani
• Varuzh Karim-Masihi
• Samuel Khachikian
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Majid Majidi
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Dariush Mehrjui
• Reza Mirkarimi
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
• Amir Naderi
• Jafar Panahi
• Kambuzia Partovi
• Fereydoun Rahnema
• Rasul Sadr Ameli
• Mohammad Sadri
• Parviz Shahbazi
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Translators

• Amrollah Abjadian
• Jaleh Amouzgar
• Najaf Daryabandari
• Mohammad Ghazi
• Lili Golestan
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Saleh Hosseini
• Ahmad Kamyabi Mask
• Ahmad Shamlou
• Mohammad Moin
• Ebrahim Pourdavoud
• Hamid Samandarian
• Jalal Sattari
• Jafar Shahidi
• Ahmad Tafazzoli
• Abbas Zaryab

Children's literature

• Samad Behrangi
• Houshang Moradi Kermani
• Babak NikTalab
• Hengameh Mofid
• Poopak NikTalab
• Farhad Hasanzadeh

Essayists

• Aydin Aghdashloo
• Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
• Ehsan Yarshater
• Ahmad Kasravi

Contemporary Persian and Cl*ical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are cl*ified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.