Hedayat's biography, photographs, genealogy and artwork. English translations and reviews of his work.

The official site of Ahmad Shamlu, Iran's great contemporary poet.

Poetry, news, and bibliography of this Iranian journalist and language poet.

Provides English translations of modern Persian poetry and prose. Features works by Mahmud Kianush and Pari Mansouri.

Forum for all those who have been touched by Forugh's poetry, life and liberation.

Poetry of Hafiz in the original Persian and in English translations, biography, art gallery and links.

Poems in English and Farsi, with biography.

Article by Howard Schneider. (Washington Post)

Contains selected works from Iranian writer Majid.

Links, information and online versions of contemporary and classic persian poems.

English translations of and information about Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi and Omar Khayyam, including side-by-side comparisions of various translations.

Life and poetry of famous Persian poets, Rumi, Hafez, Khayam, and Saadi.

English translations of poems by fifty-two female Persian poets.

English translation by Edward FitzGerald.

E-text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Text Collection.

As translated by Helen Zimmern (1883), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

Homepage of the Shahnameh Study Society. Publishes the online Ferdowsi Review, English translations Shahnameh. Membership required for full content.

Artwork by a great Iranian writer.

Text of Firdausi's epic, translated by Helen Zimmern.

From the Internet Classics Archive. Translated by Helen Zimmern.

Poems by Iranians.

Selection of poems by Iranians. From the Literary Review.

English translations of Gulistan of Saadi, Bustan of Saadi, Robaiyyat of Hafez, Ghazal (Sonnets) of Hafez, Masnavi-e-Ma'navi (spiritual couplets of Rumi), Robaiyyat (Quatrains) of Omar Khayyam and Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Famous Persian poems are also available.

Features Persian poems translated into English.