Karapet DardarianHe was born on November 8, 1927, in the city of Hamedan, but he also lived in Boroujerd and Arak. After his father’s death, they spent some time in Maragheh and Tabriz, and later moved to Tehran. His maternal grandfather was from Hamedan, but his father was a survivor of a family whose entire members had perished during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. He had fled from Turkey to Iran and his fate had dragged him to the garden of Karo’s maternal grandfather. They also allowed him to live in the garden. After a while, Karo’s parents, Takohi, fell in love and got married. The marriage produced eight children, five sons named Zavan, Wigan, Caro, Herand and Vahe, and three daughters named Juliet, Helen and Armine. Karo was the third child in the family, and the Karo family first moved to Arak because of their father’s job, carpet weaving. A year later, they also went to Boroujerd. Less than two years after their stay in the city, their father died of pneumonia at the age of 39, posing a serious challenge to his family. Forced him to abandon Armenian poetry and start composing Persian poems. This required reading classical Persian poetry. “I did not read classical poetry, but swallowed it because I did not want people to say that he is an Armenian poet who also writes in Persian,” he said. “I wanted to strengthen my position as a Persian poet.” “I did not read classical poems, but swallowed them because I did not want people to say that this is an Armenian poet who also writes in Persian. “I wanted to strengthen my position as a Persian poet.” “I did not read classical poems, but swallowed them because I did not want people to say that this is an Armenian poet who also writes in Persian. “I wanted to strengthen my position as a Persian poet.”
Karo says his father jobs carpets retail made it their job and perhaps why a place still Nmyshdym and wherein said in Boroujerd : where my father was thirty-nine years, despite the body fit and healthy and absolute strict – with a ” pneumonia ” simple, link forever live with break … in ” Boroujerd ”that my father, by the order of fate, joined his own brothers and sisters earlier than expected; And he also says somewhere: And we did not understand how it happened that we suddenly found ourselves in the birthplace of ” Sattar Khan “.
Quick Facts
- full name: Karapet Derderian
- The reason for fame: Fighting poverty and superstition
- Mother language: Farsi / Persian
- Compilations / Highlights: Breaking the silence. Wandering letters. Broken cross. The shadow of darkness and…
- Special ability: The literature
- Main job :Poet, writer
- Activity / living information: Hamedan, Boroujerd, Arak, Tabriz, Tehran, California
- Date of birth: November 8, 1927
- Date of death: July 18, 2007
- Alias / title: Karo Derderian
- Brief biography:Karapet Derderian with the literary name of Karo November 7, 1967 in Hamedan - Died July 17, 2007 in California was an Iranian-Armenian writer and poet.
Karo’s World view
Karo started writing poetry at the age of fourteen, but his desire for fame led him to abandon Armenian poetry and start composing Persian poetry. This required reading classical Persian poetry. “I did not read classical poetry, but swallowed it because I did not want people to say that he is an Armenian poet who also writes in Persian,” he said. “I wanted to strengthen my position as a Persian poet.”
Karo got what he wanted very soon, he writes in my brother vigen book :
“I was one of the most famous poets in Iran at that time. Even Nusrat Rahmani, who was well-known to me, fell behind me… The reason was very simple: Nusrat Rahmani was a silent rebel. I am a rebellious rebel…
And I once realized that Vigen is not Karo’s brother, but Karo has become Vigen ‘s brother! Believe. At the same time that Nusrat Rahmani and I were the most famous poets of the time, the unique time of our country did not have time to get to know Nima … otherwise it would not have been possible for Nusrat Rahmani and I – especially me – to be the newcomers of the era. At the same time, we had integrated poets who were great in a way. Ahmad Shamloo, Siavash Kasraei, Omid Khorasani, Houshang Ebtehaj, Akhavan Sales, Nader Naderpour, these all existed. But at that time, I was the most famous poet of the day. “
It seems that what made this work famous and popular for his literary works was his humane view of all aspects and phenomena of life at that time, a view that creates a literary writing by seeing every poetic event. From war, racism, oppression, poverty, displacement, loneliness, love, and infidelity to writing letters to Yuri Gagarin, Kennedy, and others.
Return to the beginning of the sand and epics such as the Romain Rolland brought reflecting his approach to art: “If art and truth can not live together, let art die. An art that is responsible and committed to human beings. ”
What makes these writings not seem fake is the hard work and family life of a child that shaped such a worldview. This dark view may even be influenced by Hedayat’s honest view of the world, but it is largely real. Perhaps that is why in his first book he writes his will and says that he is no longer dead as a work , and henceforth everything he writes is for man, for the suffering man of our century, however bitter it may be. Although it is dark:
Our century, is a shell,
not a sand… sonnet is …epic …
In such a century, I can not, with the same words, in the same way and with the same weapon – in the past centuries poets, caravan riders, invited camels to drive slowly – the colorful caravans of our century, the belly of the caravan of the hungry To not ask for bread, to beat the hearts of the caravan of slaves slowly, to invite the tears of the life of the caravan owners of the millions of anonymous deaths not to collapse at the crossroads! The poet of our century, the writer of our century, as the natural result of the poetry and literature of ancient times, is the inevitable child of our century! …
Therefore, his speech cannot be the result of just one cause. The speaker of our century is himself the immediate result of a series of causes, and his speech is the motto of the dawn of the awakening of nations. “
Karo’s life and death
Karo’s poems are critical and reflect the bitter truths of human life. Topics such as poverty, oppression, and crime in societies have a special place in his works. In addition, Karo is a passionate creator of beautiful love songs and poems, and human love is a significant part of his work. The courage to tell the truth with a rich emotion and in a language that can be understood by the masses and the choice of topics that are popular and considered by the young generation is one of the effective factors in public acceptance of Karo’s works. He was able to reconcile a large part of the young Iranian society with literature.
Caro’s face is only useful to a poet, a poet who dared to write a letter to Charlie Chaplin in a book, to an ass, to Kennedy, to himself. This leadership and such audacity still amazes the reader today, let alone when Karo’s wandering books were published.
Karo spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States with the family of his brother, Vigen. His troubled and chaotic life was an example of the lives of dozens of troubled young people and professional poets in Tehran in the years after the coup d’état of 1332, who sought relief from self-destruction and made a name for themselves from this way of life. Although Karo was the most physically strong of them all and lasted until the age of eighty, he was the most emotional. He witnessed his artistic death during his lifetime and in the early 1350s. His books were still sold until the end of the 1360s, but the work of another poet was dead, and he knew this himself.
When the angel of his life (his mother, Takuhi Derderian) died, Karo joined his brother Vigen an in the United States and tried to sing there in English and French, but failed. After Wagner’s death, he may no longer want to stay in this world. Karo Derderian died in 2007 at the age of eighty in a sanatorium in the village of Maryam-Hollywood Hills Memorial Park, Section Murmuring Trees, Lot 9408, Space 2 in California, USA .
Karo never remarried after separating from his wife, Carmen. The result of this marriage is three children, two daughters and a son named Remy, Rebecca, and Rene.
Among Karo’s works are The Broken Cross , Wandering Letters , Sands and Epics , Memories of a Graveman , Flight of Thought , Two Beats , My Brother vigen, Infidelity and The Shadow of Darkness . The following is an excerpt from the fateful story of Karo, written by him in my brother vigen‘s book , and is the most authoritative source on the poet’s life. The
“Hamadan “
We were born under the greatness of Alvand . Hamedan is a city that has at least one stone lion for its children instead of horses. Hamedan, a city where the tears of our forgotten childhoods, in parallel with the tears of its forgotten greatness, drop-drop by drop from the skirt of Alvand eternity to the torn skirt of the night of displaced honors…
Contemporary Persian Protest Poetry (Paperback)
Description
This book is a compilation of Persian protest poems written in the last century. This collection comprises works that address the socio-political issues of their time, often focusing on government oppression of the people. Such topics can stimulate a reader’s interest and empathy, possibly spurring him/her into action. Because of the lack of freedom of speech in Iran and constant fear of censorship, Persian poets use various tools, including rhyme, metaphor and symbolism, in order to bypass the government’s censorship.
The works of the following poets are included in this compilation: Mohammad Taqi Bahar, Simin Behbahani, Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani, Nader Naderpour, Fereydoun Moshiri, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan Salis, Parviz natel Khanlari, Hadi Khorsandi, Nasim Shomal, Karo Derderian, Hila Sedighi, Mohammad Reza Aali-payam, Iraj Mirza, Basij Khalkhali.
About the Author
Dr. Hadi Bahar is a retired internist residing in Potomac Maryland. He has a lifelong interest in Persian literature.Ali Sajjadi is a journalist living in Washington D.C.
Karo’s works and books
- Breaking the silence
- Wandering letters
- My brother Vigen
- The shadow of darkness
- A Symphony of Wandering, a Man
- Memories as a gravedigger
- Sands and Epics
- Thought flights
- Two bits
Afsaneh(Aram) Moradi
She was born in Sanandaj, Iran. After obtaining her LL.B in law and B.A in Persian literature, she did her M.A in Persian literature. Also, Ms. Moradi has been certified in teaching Persian to non-native speakers.
and Occupation: University professor.
Scientific and research activities:
- The head of the White Justice magazine
- Author of academic sourcebooks:
* The book Rahavard Parsi
* the book types of writing in public relations, media and ...
* the book New reporting
*Dictate (children's education book)
Nasim Gazerani was born in 1983 in Arak. She holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from UM University of Malaysia.
Somayeh Nosrati was born in 1982 in Tehran. She holds a Master's degree in artificial intelligence from Khatam University of Tehran.
