Background
Mohammad Reza Rahmani, publicly known as Mehrdad Avesta, was born in Borujerd into a literature and art-oriented family.
Mohammad Reza Rahmani, publicly known as Mehrdad Avesta, was born in Borujerd into a literature and art-oriented family.
Avesta entered the University of Tehran in 1948 and finished his academic studies in same university with a Master of Arts
When he was young, he changed his first name from Mohammad Reza to Mehrdad and his family name from Rahmani to Avesta in order to show his passion for ancient Persian culture. degree in Philosophy. When he was 25 years old, he started teaching literature, philosophy and history of arts at the University of Tehran. Avesta died in his office at Vahdat Hall of Tehran while he was editing a poem work.
Mehrdad Avesta was born in 1929, in Borujerd.
Born to a family of artistic history, he was also greatly interested in art, so he started writing poems from early ages, which were also published. He got his degree in Theology, and then studied philosophy.
Along his formal education, he started working as a teacher. Besides, he served in prison for 7 years as a political prisoner, because of his poems against Pahlavi Regime.
He received some practices under supervision of Mone, Russel, Sartre, and Jamalzadeh.
He died at the age of 62 because of heart attack, and is buried in Behesht-e Zahra in Astists section. Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
Sebastian Mone.