Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales is one of the well-known Persian poets who wrote both Free Verse and classic Iranian poetry.

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales was born in 1929. He was from Fahraj, Yazd province, but lived in Mashhad. Because he has two brothers, their family has turned into Akhavan-Sales (triple brothers). Akhavan is an Arabic plural noun that means brothers, and the equivalent of Sales in English is triple. The pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales in his poetry is M.Omid.

• Stylistics

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales wrote both Free Verse and classic Iranian poetry. His opinion of life is clearly in his poetries. One of the prominent poems of Akhavan is Winter that talk about the oppression of society in that period. Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poems have a social context and sometimes depicted the events of life during that time. He also wrote epic poetry and Khorasani poetry.

• Prominent work

  • Organ (Arghanoon, 1951)
  • Winter (Zemestān, 1956)
  • The Ending of Shahnameh (Ākhare Shāhnāmeh, 1959)
  • From This Avesta (Az In Avestā, 1965)
  • The Hunting Poems (Manzoomeye Shekār, 1966)
  • Autumn in Prison (Pāeez dar Zendān, 1969)
  • Love Lyrics and Azure (Aasheghānehā va Kabood, 1969)
  • Best Hope (Behtarin Omid, 1969)
  • Selected Poems (Ghozideh-ye Ash-ār, 1970)
  • In the Autumn's Small Yard in Prison (Dar Hayāte Koochak Pāeez dar Zendān, 1976)
  • Hell, but Cold (Duzakh Amma Sard, 1978)
  • Life Says: Still We Must Live (Zendegi Migooyad Amma Bāz Bayad Zist, 1978)
  • O You Ancient Land, I Love Thee (Torā Ay Kohan Boom o Bar Doost Dāram, 1989)
  • I Saw Susa (Shush-rā Didam, 1972)
  • They Say That Ferdowsi (Guyand Ki Ferdowsi, 1976)
  • An Ancient Tree and the Forest (Derakhti pir va jangal, 1977)
  • And Now a New Spring (Inak Bahar-i Digar, 1978)
  • Fight on, O Hero (Bejang, Ey Pahlavān, 1978)
  • Nima Yushij's Innovations and Aesthetics (Bed'athā va Badāye'i Nimā Yushij, 1979)
  • Nima Yushij's Bequest (Atā va Laqā-i Nimā Yushij, 1983) 

• What is the best time to go?
  If you want to enjoy your journey, late March until late June is the best time to visit Mehdi Akhavan-Sales grave and the other places in Mashhad. The average temperature is 32 ° C during this period. Pay attention, during Nowruz and the birthday of Imam Reza Mashhad is very crowded.

• Getting there?​​​​​​​

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales is buried next to the tomb of Ferdowsi in Tous, Mashhad Province. You can use public transport to get to Ferdowsi's tomb. Just go to Ferdowsi's terminal in Mashhad and take the bus line 202. These buses will take you to the tomb within 45 minutes.