Hushang Irani

• Name — Hushang Irani • Born — 1925 • Birthplace — Hamedan, Iran • Died — 4 September 1973 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — * Poet • translator • painter • cleric • Journalist • Period — 1948–1956 • Movement — Modern literature, Surrealism • Notable Works — Spicy Violet on Grey Grey The curtain came into flame and the Devil came in I think all about you now, I think about all of you now Some Designs Understanding of art: In the way to a worldview in art • Resting Place — Behesht-e Zahra • Native Name — هوشنگ ایرانی

Founded in 1950, Khorus Jangi (The Fighting Cock Society) was a small artistic group that published a journal by same title. In the beginning, Khorus Jangi was not significantly different from other literary journals of the time. A year later, however, Hushang Irani, the enfant terrible of modernist Persian poetry, joined the group. Under his influence, the journal was transformed into a radical modernist literary journal. It published Iranis poems, which no other literary journal of the day, and even almost no literary critics on those days, would dare to acknowledge as poetry. Irani has shrewdly observed and anxiously realized how the potentials that Nima had introduced into Persian poetry were being co-opted: Nima and modernist Persian poetry were in the process of becoming mainstream. Understanding this double edge of youthful tradition, Irani had both praised and condemned Nima.

From the book "Some Designs", Tehran, April 1952

Hushang Irani is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded as linguist, journalist, poet, translator and painter.