Reza Farmand

Biography

Reza Farmand was born in 1956 in Tabriz and grew up in Teheran. He studied Arts at Bangalore University (1981) and English at Copenhagen University (1996). His first collection of poems, Eternal Dance was printed in1983 in Teheran, but the censor administration of the clerical regime prohibited its distribution. He has published the following collection of poems in Persian abroad:

1- Eternal Dance, 1988

2- Waiting, 1989

3- My Mother Didn't Become Beautiful, 1991

4- The Light of Word and the Modesty of God, 1991

5- The Acid of Exile, 1991

6- The Spring of Word, 1991

7- White Nights, 1999

8- Polar Poems, 2002

9- Hosting Crisis (2002)

10- My Father Turned into a Memory (2006)

11- Parisian poems (2006)

12- Parisian short poems (2006)
13-The Legend of Dua (2007)
14- Opportunity is Separated from Speed (2007)
15-The Democracy of Lovemaking (2008)
16- We Make Each Other More Beautiful (2008)
17-The Legend of Neda (2009)
18- Taraneh was Tomorrow’s Green (2009)
19- A peak is one step (2009)

20- Sweetheart is a Human Wine (2009)

He has been living in Denmark since 1985. His poems have appeared in many Persian literary magazines in exile.