Ahmad Reza Ahmadi

Narozen 19. 5. 1940 · Kerman, Iran

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