Background
Even though his father was from Kabul, he spent most of his childhood in Mazari Sharif.
professor writer Linguist & Historian poet
Even though his father was from Kabul, he spent most of his childhood in Mazari Sharif.
He attended Bakhtar School for his primary and for most of his secondary education. After his family moved to Kabul He finished Habibia High School in 1965.
Wasef Bakhtari holds a Bachelor degree in Persian literature from Kabul University. He did his graduate studies in the United States. and received a masters degree in education from Columbia University in 1976. They sought refuge in Pakistan, but with a rise in Taliban influence there as well, returned to the United States with the help of World Relief and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which resettled them in New Portuguese Richey, Florida.
Foreign 15 years Bakhtari worked for the Ministry of Education, writing and translating text books
In 1978 he became the editor in chief of Zhwandoon Magazine. He has also served as a professor at Kabul University and influenced many other Persian writers and poet in Afghanistan.
In 1978, when the Khalqi government took power he was thrown into prison for two years. He left politics after he was freed in 1980.
Wasef Bakhtari is the most renowned modern Persian poet and writer in Afghanistan.
He is regarded as a literary leader to most Persian writers, poets, and linguists in Afghanistan. He was one of the first Persian poets to introduce she’r-e nimaa"i ("Nimaic poetry") and he is regarded in having his own style of Persian poetry. He was under the influence of Rahi Moayeri, Amiri Firoozkouhi and Ahmad Shamlou.
Wasef Bakhtari was one of the founders and leaders of the leftist and Maoist party, Shole Jawed.