TEHRAN – Tehran’s Book City Institute will hold a seminar on Persian contemporary poet Nima Yushij and Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón in 2015.
“We should introduce Persian contemporary poetry to the world and holding such seminars would be helpful,” the deputy director of the Book City Institute, Ali-Asghar Mohammadkhani, said in a press release on Monday.
The seminar will focus on the establishment of modern poetry composed by Nima Yushij (1895–1960) and Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881–1958).
Born Ali Esfandiari in Yush in Mazandaran Province, Yushij attended primary school in his birth place and later came to Tehran to continue his studies.
What made Yushij a great, powerful guru for the young poets of his time was his innovations in form and style rather than the content of his poetry.
Yushij died of pneumonia in the Shemiran neighborhood in Tehran, but was buried in Yush, as he had willed.
Jiménez Mantecón was a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 “for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity”. One of Jiménez’s most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of “pure poetry”.
Tehran’s Book City Institute has recently held a seminar on Sadi and Cervantes at the Complutense University of Madrid, which is a return colloquium that the institute held in mid April 2014 in Tehran.
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