Background
Yadollah Amini known as Maftun was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, near Tabriz.
Yadollah Amini known as Maftun was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, near Tabriz.
He studied in the Tehran University"s Faculty of Law.
After completing primary and secondary school in his hometown, he moved to Tehran. He started with classic poetic style, but then specially after the 1980s continued with modern and nonrhythmic forms of poetry. His native language is Azeri Turkish and Ashiqli Karvan is his first Turkish poetry collection.
Major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgias.