Wasef Bakhtari
Afghan poet (1943–2023)
Wasef Bakhtari
واصف باختری |
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Born |
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1943-03-15
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15 March 1943
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Died |
19 July 2023
(2023-07-19)
(aged
80)
California
, U.S.
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Nationality | Afghan-American |
Citizenship | Afghan |
Alma mater | Kabul University |
Occupation(s) | Professor, poet, writer, linguist, historian |
Title | Ustad (Professor) |
Website |
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Wasef Bakhtari ( Persian : استاد واصف باختری ; 15 March 1943 – 19 July 2023) was an Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual.
Personal life
Bakhtari was born in Balkh on 15 March 1943. [1] He spent most of his childhood in Mazar-i-Sharif . He attended Bakhtar School for his primary and for most of his secondary education. After his family moved to Kabul , he finished Habibia High School in 1965. He held a BA degree in Persian literature from Kabul University . He did his graduate studies in the U.S., where he received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in 1976. In 1996 Bakhtari, then a professor of literature at Kabul University, and his wife Noriajan were forced to flee Afghanistan because of the intolerance of the Taliban . They sought refuge in Pakistan. Soon after, Nooria died and he remarried to Soriya Bakhtari, but with a rise in Taliban influence there as well, returned to the United States with the help of World Relief and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees , which resettled them in New Port Richey, Florida . They moved to California after three months. [2]
Wasef Bakhtari died in California, on 19 July 2023, at the age of 80. [3] [4]
Professional and political career
For 15 years, Bakhtari worked for the Ministry of Education, writing and translating text books. In 1978, he became the editor-in-chief of Zhwandoon magazine. He had also served as a professor at Kabul University and influenced many other Persian writers and poet in Afghanistan.
Bakhtari was one of the founders and leaders of the leftist and Maoist party, Shalleh-ye Javiyd . In 1978, when the Khalqi government took power in the Saur Revolution , he was thrown into prison for two years. He left politics after he was freed in 1980. [ citation needed ]
Poetry and literature
Bakhtari was one of the most noted modern Persian poets and writers in Afghanistan. He was regarded as a literary leader to most Persian writers, poets, and linguists in Afghanistan. He was one of the first Persian poets to introduce she’r-e nimaa'i ("Nimaic poetry") and he is regarded in having his own style of Persian poetry. He was under the influence of Rahi Moayeri , Amiri Firoozkouhi , and Ahmad Shamlou . [5]
References
- ↑ "About" . Wasef Bakhtari . Retrieved 20 July 2023 .
- ↑ Lush, Tamara. "Afghani refugee expresses same horror as Americans" . St. Petersburg Times Online . September 14, 2001. (Retrieved November 1, 2006).
- ↑ "واصف باختری، شاعر «دروازههای بسته تقویم» درگذشت" . BBC News. 20 July 2023 . Retrieved 20 July 2023 .
- ↑ "واصف باختری، شاعر و ادیب بزرگ زبان فارسی درگذشت" . Afintl. 20 July 2023 . Retrieved 20 July 2023 .
- ↑ WWW.Afghanasamai.com
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