Esmail Khoi or Esmail Khoyi (Persian: اسماعیل خویی; 30 June 1938 – 25 May 2021)[1] was an Iranian poet and writer.[2] He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s.[3] Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution.[4] He was a member of the Iranian Writers' Association. His poems have been translated in many languages, including English, French, Russian, German and Ukrainian. He wrote a poetry book in English called "Voice of Exile", "What is shall be what is not". He is the first Iranian writer to be awarded the Coburg Rückert Prizen for literature, which he received in 2010.
Selected bibliography
Edges of Poetry:Selected Poetry (Blue Logos Press, 1995)
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
