Yadollah Maftun Amini


Yadollah Maftun Amini is an Iranian poet.

Early life

Yadollah Amini with literature nickname of Maftun was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan at northwest of Iran. He did his early education up to end of highschool in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in the Tehran University's Faculty of Law.

Literature works

Maftun started Persian Poetry with classic style, but gradually proceed to modern and no rhythmic Persian Poetry in 1980s. Other than poems in Persian Maftun has poems in his mother language, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan is his first Azerbaijani poetry collection of Maftun. Major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgias.

Works