Mana Aghaee | |
Birth Name: | Persian: مانا آقایی |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1973 |
Birth Place: | Bushehr, Iran |
Occupation: | Poet writer |
Language: | Persian, Swedish |
Nationality: | Iranian, Swedish |
Education: | M.A. in Iranian Studies |
Alma Mater: | Uppsala University |
Period: | 1991–present |
Genre: | Poetry Haiku Bibliography Iranian Studies |
Notableworks: | Marg agar labhā-ye to rā dāsht (2003) Man 'Isā ebn-e khodam (2007) Zemestān ma'shuq-e man ast (2012) |
Spouse: | Ashk Dahlén |
Relatives: | Shirzad Aghaee (father) |
Mana Aghaee (Persian: مانا آقایی; born August 24, 1973[1] in Bushehr, Iran) is an Iranian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian studies.
Mana Aghaee was born 24 August 1973 into a middle-class family in Bushehr, Iran. In 1987 her family emigrated to Sweden and settled in Stockholm.[2]
She is the daughter of the Iranian literary scholar and poet Shirzad Aghaee of Shiraz. She is married to Ashk Dahlén, Swedish scholar and translator of Persian literature, since 1994.
Mana Aghaee has a M.A. degree in Iranian languages from Uppsala University, Sweden, and is a specialist in modern Persian literature.[3]
She regularly contributes to Persian literary journals and magazines inside and outside of Iran. Her poems have also been translated into several languages, among them, English, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic, Sorani and German.
Mana Aghaee is a pioneer writer in Persian of short form poetry, Haiku and Tanka, originally from Japan. She has also contributed to introducing Swedish as well as Persian poetry, especially poetry from Japan and Korea, in Persian.
She was the founder and co-producer of Sherophone, the first biweekly podcast of Persian poetry in 2010.[4]
Mana Aghaee's poems has been well received in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora, and her name stands out together with a few others: "Among other modern Iranian poetesses the names of Parvin Etesami, Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Mana Aghaee, and Ziba Karbasi, among others, stand out."[5]
Collections of poetry
Aghaee's work can be found in the following anthologies in English:
Literary Translations
Bibliographical Works
Academic Articles