Background
Shams Langeroodi was born in Langerood, Gilan, Iran as Mohammad Taghi Javaheri Gilani. Later his father changed their last name to Shams.
Shams Langeroodi was born in Langerood, Gilan, Iran as Mohammad Taghi Javaheri Gilani. Later his father changed their last name to Shams.
He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern in four volumes. He is currently in the process of publishing his second novel. He published his first poetry book in 1976, but it wasn"t until the 1980s that he established himself as one of the major poets of that decade when his poetry gained attention due to its novel imagery and surreal elements.
He currently lives in Tehran, Iran and is also the editor of Ahang-e Digar publications along with Hafez Mousavi and Shahab Mogharabin.
An Analytic History of Persian Modern Published in 1998 in four volumes, An Analytic History of Persian Modern was the first extensive research work done on the contemporary Persian poetry. In order to focus on research Shams Langeroodi did not publish any poetry book for 10 years.
lieutenant starts from 1905 and goes year by year describing the events in Iran"s political and social scenes, poetry and criticism conditions, literary magazines and poetry books published each year along with selected reviews including a brief review by the author up until 1979.