Cyrus Atabay

Cyrus Atabay
Grave tomb of Cyrus Atabay in Munich
Born	(1929-09-06)September 6, 1929 Tehran, Iran
Died	January 26, 1996(1996-01-26) (aged 66) Munich, Germany
Nationality	Iranian
Parents	Hadi Atabay (father) Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi (mother)
Relatives	Fatimeh Pahlavi (aunt), Mohammadreza Pahlavi (uncle), Reza Shah (grandfather)
Family	Pahlavi dynasty
Awards	1957: Hugo-Jacobi-Preis 1990: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize

Cyrus Atabay (1929–1996) was a Persian-German poet. He mostly wrote in German and also translated works of Persian literature into German.

Personal life

He was the son of Hadi Atabay and Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi, the first daughter of Reza Shah. Atabay was of the Pahlavi dynasty. During World War II he studied German literature in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He passed his last years of life in Germany from 1983 to 1996.

Awards

• 1957: Hugo-Jacobi-Preis
• 1983: full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts))
• 1990: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 1993: Member of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (the German Academy for Language and Literature)

Publications

• Düsseldorf: Classen Verlag، 1971.Die Worte der Ameisen/ Cyrus Atabay 100p
• Hamburg: Classen Verlag, Gesange von Morgen: neue Iranische lyrik/ Cyrus Atabay 1968, 126p
• Die schönsten Gedichte aus dem klassischen Persien\ Hafis, Rumi, Omar Chajjam; Übertragen von Cyrus Atabay; Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort Versehen von Kurt Scharf

See also

• Aryan