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Poet/Painter
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Sohrab
Sepehri
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Iran
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| 1928 |
Born
in Kashan, Iran |
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Education: |
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Khayam
School and first part of high school "Pahlavi
High School" in Kashan |
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Introduction
college in Tehran |
| 1946 |
Commenced
with "Training and Education Culture
Office", Kashan |
| 1948 |
Resignation
from "Training and Education Culture
Office" |
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Finishing
high school in "Literature" field |
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Faculty
of Fine Arts, Tehran University |
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Commenced
with "Oil Company", Tehran |
| 1949 |
Resignation
from "Oil Company" |
| 1951 |
Published
his first collection of poems "Color's
Death" |
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Commenced
with "Hygiene Cooperation Organization",
Tehran, as designer |
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Collaborated
in some painting exhibitions |
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Published
his second collection of poems, "Dream's
Life" |
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Commenced
with "Fine Arts Office" in Museum Dept.
and teaching in "Fine Arts School" |
| 1955 |
Translated
Japanese verses and published in "Sokhan"
(Speech) magazine |
| 1957 |
Traveled
to Europe via land, Paris and London |
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Paris
Fine Arts School: Lithography Field |
| 1958 |
First
Tehran Biennale |
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Two
months travel, Rome to Paris |
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Venice
Biennale |
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Returned
to Iran |
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Commenced
with "Agriculture Ministry" |
| 1960 |
Second
Tehran Biennale; First Prize of Fine Arts |
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Traveled
to Tokyo to learn inlay; he visited cities and art
centers of Japan |
| 1961 |
He
visited Agra (Taj-Mahal) in India, in his return
to Iran |
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Individual
Exhibition, Abbasi Hall, Tehran |
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Published
collection of poems "Sun's Load" |
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Teaching
in "Decorative Arts School", Tehran |
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Published
collection of poems "Sorrow's East" |
| 1962 |
March,
Resignation from all his governmental positions |
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Individual
exhibition in "Farhang Hall", Tehran |
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Again,
individual exhibition in "Farhang Hall",
Tehran |
| 1963 |
Group
exhibition in "Gil-Gamesh" gallery,
Tehran |
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Individual
exhibition in "Golestan Film Studio",
Tehran |
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San
Paolo Biennale, Brazil |
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Group
exhibition "Iran Contemporary Art",
French |
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Group
exhibition in "Niala" gallery, Tehran |
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Group
exhibition in "Saba" gallery, Tehran |
| 1964 |
Traveled
to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan and returned to
Iran |
| 1965 |
Group
exhibition in "Bourges" gallery, Tehran |
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Individual
exhibition in "Bourges" gallery, Tehran |
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Published
"Water's Foot Voice" poem in "Arash"
magazine |
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Traveled
to London and Munich and returned to Iran |
| 1966 |
Traveled
to France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Austria and
retuned to Tehran |
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Individual
exhibition in "Seihoun" gallery, Tehran |
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Collection
of poems "Green Volume" |
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"Sepehri
Night Poem" in "Rozan" gallery,
Tehran |
| 1968 |
Group
exhibition in "Mass" gallery, Tehran |
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"Roiane
Festival", French |
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Iran
Contemporary Art exhibition, "Goatee
Institute", Tehran |
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Group
exhibition in "Pahlavi University",
Shiraz |
| 1969 |
International
Painting Festival, French; and won "Special
Prize" |
| 1970 |
Traveled
to USA, Long Island |
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Group
exhibition in Bridge Hampton City |
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Seven
months in New York |
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Returned
to Iran |
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Again,
traveled to USA |
| 1971 |
Individual
exhibition in "Boston Gallery", New York |
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Retuned
to Iran |
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Individual
exhibition in "Lito Gallery", Tehran |
| 1972 |
Individual
exhibition in "Cyrus Gallery", French,
Paris |
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Transferred
the above exhibition to "Seihoun
Gallery", Tehran |
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Individual
exhibition in "Seihoun Gallery", Tehran |
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Traveled
to Paris and stayed in "Arts International
Hostel" |
| 1974 |
Traveled
to Greece and Egypt |
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Retuned
to Iran |
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First
Tehran International Art Exhibition |
| 1975 |
Individual
exhibition in "Seihoun Gallery", Tehran |
| 1976 |
Iran
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Switzerland |
| 1977 |
Collection
of poems "Eight Books" |
| 1978 |
Individual
exhibition in "Seihoun Gallery", Tehran |
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Reprinted
"Eight Books" |
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Traveled
to England for his blood cancer |
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Retuned
to Iran |
| 1979 |
April
20, deceased in Pars Hospital, Tehran |
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April
21, buried in Meshed Ardehal, Kashan |
| The Primeval Call,
Translated
to English by M. Alexandrian |
Where are my shows?
Who was it who called Sohrab?
It was a familiar voice like the touch of the wind on the leave.
My mother is asleep
So are Manouchehr and Parvaneh* and perhaps all the townsfolk.
The June night passes gently over seconds like an elegy,
And a cool breeze from the corner of the blanket sweeps my sleep.
It smells of separation:
My pillow is full of the song of the swallow plumes.
Morning shall break,
The sky will migrate
With this cup of water.
I must go tonight!
I who spoke to the folk in this region through the widest window,
Never heard a word that matched time;
No loving eye stared at the ground;
Nobody was enchanted by looking at the garden,
Nobody took a magpie seriously at a farm.
I am dejected like a cloud.
When I behold Houri - the neighbor's full grown lass -
Studying theology
At the foot of the rarest elm tree on earth.
There are other things also - moments of exaltation
(For example I saw a poetess
So absorbed watching the horizon
That the sky laid eggs in her eyes;
And one night out of other nights,
A man questioned me:
"How long does it take to the rising of grapes?)
Tonight I must go!
I must take a suitcase
Big enough to contain my shirt of loneliness
And walk in a direction
Where epic-singing trees can be seen;
Towards the vast wordless expanse which keeps calling me.
Someone called me again: Sohrab!,
Where are my shoes? |
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