Siavash Kasrai (February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996; Persian: سیاوش کسرائی) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, he distanced himself from its leadership in 1988–1990, and turned into an outspoken critic in the mid 1990s.
Siavash Kasrai (February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996; Persian: سیاوش کسرائی) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, he distanced himself from its leadership in 1988–1990, and turned into an outspoken critic in the mid 1990s.
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Life Siavash Kasrai was born on February 25, 1927, in Isfahan, Iran, into a family of officials, some (his uncle Abdol-Karim Kasrai in particular) with a serious interest in literature. In Tehran from an early age, he received his primary education at Adab School and secondary education at the Military College and Dar ul-Funun. He graduated from the University of Tehran, Faculty of Law, in 1950, and did his military service at the Military Academy. In the early 1950s, Kasrai worked at the Iranian Health Co-operation Agency, created under Truman’s Point Four Program, and headed two of the agency’s periodicals (Behdashte Hamegani dar Nahiyeye Dariaye Khazar and Zendegi o Behdasht). From the mid-1950s to the early-1980s, Kasrai almost continuously served in government bodies focusing on housing or urban development: the Iranian Bank of Housing, the Housing Agency and the Ministry of Housing and Urbanization. In the early- to mid-1970s, in a forced leave from the Ministry, he worked for a few years as chief copywriter for the Behshahr Industrial Group. In addition to his regular employment, Kasrai occasionally taught literature at the Universities of Tehran and Zahedan. During his secondary education, Kasrai was part of a group of young nationalists…
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Literary work
Kasrai's works were first published in the following volumes (with only the 2003a reference including both previously published and unpublished materials):
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1959 - Arashe Kamangir, Tehran: Andishe
1962 - Khune Siavash, Tehran: Amir Kabir
1966a - Ba Damavande Khamush, Tehran: Sa’eb
1966b - Sang o Shabnam, Tehran: Sa’eb
1967a - Ba’d az Zemestan dar Abadiye Ma, Tehran: Kanune Parvareshe Fekriye Kudakan va Nojavanan
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1967b ' Khanegi, Tehran: Bina
1975 - Chehreye Mardomiye She’re Nima, University of Zahedan, duplicated
1976 - Be Sorkhiye Atash, be Ta’me Dud, Sweden (unknown city): Tudeh Party of Iran (published under the pseudonym Shabane Bozorg Omid)
1978 - Az Ghorogh ta Khoruskhan, Tehran: Maziar
1979 - Amrika, Amrika, Tehran: Elm o Honar
1981. Chehel Kelid, Tehran: Tudeh Party of Iran
1983 - Tarashehaye Tabar, Kabul: Pohantun Cultural Assembly
1984a - Hediyei baraye Khak, London: Bina
1984b - Peyvand, Kabul: Tudeh Party of Iran
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1995 - Mohreye Sorkh, Vienna: Kara 2003a - Dar Havaye Morghe Amin: Naghdha, Gofteguha, va Dastanha, Tehran: Ketabe Nader Publications 2003b - Havaye Aftab: Vapasin Sorudeha, Tehran: Ketabe Nader Publications These are all books of poetry, except the 1967a (a children book), 1975 (a piece of literary criticism) and 2003a (including literary criticism, interviews, and novels) publications. Kasrai's complete collection of poems was published as a 773 pages octavo in 2005 in Tehran by Ketabe Nader Publications, under the title Az Ava ta Havaye Aftab. The second publication, Arashe Kamangir, brought public recognition to Kasrai. Arash is a legendary figure saving his country from the humiliation and misery of defeat by putting his soul into an arrow, which will travel over and gain back lost territory. Kasrai's version is the first epic poem in Nima Yooshij's style, or more generally the first epic instance of Persian new poetry. The poem was dedicated to Khosro Roozbeh, a radical leftist executed in early 1958. In spite of what appeared to some as technical weakness, and in spite of the author's proposed dissident interpretation, Kasrai’s Arashe Kamangir was one of the few contemporary poems to find its way into schoolbooks. Mohreye Sorkh, Kasrai's…
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Sources
Abedi, Kamyar, 2000: Shabane Bozorge Omid: Barresiye Zendegi va Asare Siavashe Kasrai, Tehran: Ketabe Nader Publications.
Kasrai, Siavash, Undated, probably mid 1980s: Autobiographical Notes. Kasrai Papers.
Kasrai, Siavash, 1990: Communication to the April 1990 Tudeh Party Central Committee Plenum. Kasrai Papers.
Kasrai, Siavash, 2003: Mohreye Sorkh. Vienna: Kara, 1995. Reprint, Tehran: Ketabe Nader Publications.
