# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esmail-khoi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:22:56.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esmail-khoi"
name: "Esmail Khoi"
slug: "esmail-khoi"
description: "Esmail Khoi or Esmail Khoyi was an Iranian poet and writer. He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s. Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution. He was a member of the Iranian Writers' Association. His poems have been translated in many languages, including English, French, Russian, German and Ukrainian. He wrote a poetry book in English called \"Voice of Exile\", \"What is shall be what is not\". He is the first Iranian writer to be awarded the Coburg Rückert Prizen for literature, which he received in 2010."
tagline: "Iranian philosopher, author, poet and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esmail_Khoi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
deathDate: "2021-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             11.6304347826087
  historical:           6.367533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A"
    title: "إسماعيل خوئي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اسماعيل خویى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esmail_Khoi"
    title: "Esmail Khoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esmail_Khoi"
    title: "Esmail Khoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AE%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "اسماعیل خویی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%97'%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "אסמאעיל ח'וי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5398407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump