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Iran: Bloggers remember Shamlou

· Written by Fred Petrossian

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, History, Literature

Several bloggers wrote about Ahmad Shamlou [1]‘s 10th anniversary. Shamlou was probabaly the most influential poet in modern Iran. VatanParast, Iranian blogger, quotes [2] [fa] Shamlou: “underdeveloped countries are like people who are sleeping.”