Nima Yooshij

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Nima Yooshij
Native name	نیما یوشیج
Born	Ali Esfandiari (1895-11-11)11 November 1895 Yush, Nur, Mazandaran, Qajar Persia (present-day Iran)
Died	4 January 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 64) Shemiran, Tehran, Iran
Resting place	Imamzadeh Abdollah, Ray (until 2007) Nima's House, Yush (from 2007)
Pen name	Nima
Language	Persian
Nationality	Iranian
Genre	Modernist poetry
Literary movement	She'r-e Nimaa'i
Notable works	Afsaneh, Quqnūs, The Red Star of Dawn

Nimā Yushij (12 November 1895 – 6 January 1960; Persian: نیما یوشیج),^[1][2] also called Nimā (نیما), néema Ali Esfandiari (Persian: علی اسفندیاری), was an prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called she'r-e now (شعر نو, lit. "new poetry"), also known as She'r-e Nimaa'i (شعر نیمایی, lit "Nima poetry") in his honour after his death. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry.

He died of pneumonia in Shemiran, in the northern part of Tehran and was buried in his native village of Yush, Nur County, Mazandaran, as he had willed.^[2][3]