Ali Salehi
Illustration — Seyed Ali Salehi, 2006 Seyed Ali Salehi (born 1 April 1954 in Khuzestan Province, Imperial Iran) is a contemporary Iranian poet and writer. He is one of the founders of the Pure Wave movement and the founder of speech poetry and meta-speech poetry in contemporary Iranian poetry. He was also one of the main secretaries of the Writers' Association of Iran.
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Ali Salehi

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- Forough Faroukhzad Award
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Salehi is a prominent and well-known figure in contemporary Persian poetry. His father was a farmer, poet, and Shahnameh reader. In 1974, he was expelled from school due to punishment and threats by the school and the authorities, and a year later, he returned to school and received a diploma in mathematics. His first poems were published by Masjed Soleiman Oil Company in the local magazine of Abolghasem Halat. Salehi is credited with establishing the mawj-e nab literary movement and promoting shi'r-e guftar (speech poetry) in Iran. In 1978, he received the Forugh Farrokhzad Award for poetry. He was nominated for the Nima Literary Award in 2010 but refused his nomination.
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Ali Salehi born at Izeh.
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- 1.Also spelled "Seyyed"
- 2.زندگینامه - سيد علی صالحی. www.seyedalisalehi.com.
- 3.زندگینامه: سیدعلی صالحی (۱۳۳۴ -). همشهری آنلاین. 2013-03-11.
- 4.ICORN guest writers on Censorship and Creativity in Exile at the Frankfurt Book fair. ICORN international cities of refuge network.
- 5.زندگینامه - سيد علی صالحی. www.seyedalisalehi.com.
- 6.بخوان داتکام >> ليست كتاب علی صالحی ; خرید اینترنتی کتاب - بزرگترین فروشگاه کتاب. 2010-02-08.
- 7.Magiran روزنامه اعتماد (1391/02/14): با سیدعلی صالحی در نمایشگاه کتاب. www.magiran.com.
- 8."گزينهي اشعار" سيدعلي صالحي به چاپ هفتم رسيد. ایسنا. 2012-09-23.
- 9.مراسم پایانی دومین جایزه شعر "نیما" برپا شد. خبرآنلاین. 2010-10-01.
- 10.آفتاب - سیدعلی صالحی: مردم گرسنهاند، جایزهها را بگذارید برای بعد؛ عزت مردم در اولویت است. 2011-04-26.
- 11.Behnegarsoft.com. پیام سیدعلی صالحی به جشنواره ادبی گلاویژ ایبنا. خبرگزاری کتاب ايران (IBNA). 2018-04-08.
- 12.BBCPersian.com. www.bbc.com.
- 13.I Swear By The Moon of the Hashemites That I Speak the Truth. Michigan Quarterly Review. 58. 2. Spring 2019.
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Ali Salehi is recorded as having received Forough Faroukhzad Award.
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