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Ahmad Shamlou
Ahmad Shamlou (1925–2000) took Nima’s revolution further, abandoning metre altogether for she’r-e sepid, "white verse". A poet, translator, journalist and folklorist, he is one of the towering figures of 20th-century Persian literature.
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