WRITER

Ahmad Shamlou

1925 - 2000

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Ahmad Shamlou (Persian: احمد شاملو, Ahmad Šāmlū Persian pronunciation: [æhˈmæd(-e) ʃɒːmˈluː], also known under his pen name A. Bamdad (Persian: ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Shamlou has received more than 177,008 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ahmad Shamlou is the 2,408th most popular writer (down from 2,311th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Iran (down from 216th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Iranian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ibrāhīm dar Ātash
1990
Nukhustīn haftah-ʼi shiʻr-i Khūshah
2005
Choix de poèmes
2000
Shikuftan dar mih
1984
Dar āstānah
1997
Az zakhm-i qalb--
Criticism and interpretation
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad Shamlou ranks 2,408 out of 7,302. Before him are Bion of Smyrna, Mikołaj Rej, Alonso de Ercilla, Kate Millett, Charles Maturin, and Vasile Alecsandri. After him are Eustache Deschamps, Ki no Tsurayuki, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Antiochus Kantemir, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Sotion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ahmad Shamlou ranks 155. Before him are Giovanni Spadolini, Katherine MacGregor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Ana María Matute, Donald O'Connor, and Olof Thunberg. After him are Eleonora Rossi Drago, Rabah Bitat, Mario Merz, John Cocke, Bill Gates Sr., and Emilio Eduardo Massera. Among people deceased in 2000, Ahmad Shamlou ranks 95. Before him are Terence McKenna, Steven Runciman, Walter Krupinski, Hendrik Casimir, Charles M. Schulz, and George Volkoff. After him are Rabah Bitat, Domingos da Guia, Ursula Kuczynski, Svetozar Vukmanović, Kalle Svensson, and Christian Marquand.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ahmad Shamlou ranks 239 out of 631. Before him are Ahmad Jannati (1927), Hayedeh (1942), Aga Khan II (1830), Vardanes I (10), Esmail Ghaani (1957), and Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875). After him are Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Orodes I of Parthia (-190), Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani (798), and Morteza Motahhari (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ahmad Shamlou ranks 25. Before him are Táhirih (1817), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Daqiqi (1000), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), and Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883). After him are Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Nima Yooshij (1897), Raffi (1835), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Ubayd Zakani (1301), and Asadi Tusi (999).

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