Ahmadreza Ahmadi

Ahmadreza Ahmadi (Persian: احمدرضا احمدی; born 1940) is an Iranian poet and screenwriter. The history of modern Persian poetry calls him the founder of New Wave Poetry in Iran.

Ahmadreza Ahmadi احمدرضا احمدی
Ahmadreza Ahmadi in 2013
Born	(1940-05-20) 20 May 1940 Kerman, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Education	Dar ul-Funun
Occupation	Poet
Years active	1961–present
Spouse	Shohreh Heydari ​ (m. 1982)​
Children	1

Ahmadi was born in 1940 in Kerman, Iran. He moved to Tehran in 1948. In Tehran, he attended the Adab school and in 1954 entered Dar ol-Fonoun. Two individuals, who, according to him, have been instrumental to his love for literature, are his maternal nephew, the writer Abdolrahim Ahmadi, and his teacher at Dar ul-Fonoun, Mr Mohammad Shirvāni.[1]

Ahmadi's first book of poetry, Tarh (Sketch), was published in 1962. His poetry has its roots in French Surrealism and the American Imagists, especially in poets like Saint John Perse, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Ezra Pound.