Esmail Nooriala

Dr. Esmail Nooriala, born in 1943 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian writer, poet, movie director, and intellectual. Dr. Esmail Nooriala (also known as Payaam) was born in 1943 in Tehran, Iran. He began printing his articles on cinema and literature, as well as his poems, in 1957. The first collection of his modern poems was published in 1962 and he has published 8 more collections of poetry since that date. In 1964 he began writing critical and historical analysis of modern Persian poetry and his first voluminous book on this subject (known as "Sovar va Asbaab") was published in 1968. He directed two feature films and 20 documentaries during the next 4 years and, at the same time, taught Persian literature and culture at the Tehran...