# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-shamloo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:44:54.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-shamloo"
name: "Ahmad Shamloo"
slug: "ahmad-shamloo"
description: "Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Yooshij. In fact, Abdolali Dastgheib, Iranian literary critic, argues that Shamlou is one of the pioneers of modern Persian poetry and has had the greatest influence, after Nima, on Iranian poets of his era. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is accessible. As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafez and Omar Khayyam. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far unprecedented in Persian poetry, which distressed some of the admirers of more traditional poetry."
tagline: "Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist (1925-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmad_Shamlou_-_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-12-12"
deathDate: "2000-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.17
  momentum:             10
  historical:           22.897036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182430/"
    handle:    "nm1182430"
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    url:       "http://www.shamlou.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump