Ali Salehi

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. Salehi is a prominent and well-known figure in contemporary Persian poetry.

Seyed Ali Salehi was born on 1 April 1954, in the village of Marghab in the Izeh Bakhtiari district of Khuzestan province to a farming family. 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. Provided by Wikipedia