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Born in in Badakhashan province a region bordering present-day.

Photograph of Partaw Naderi, a founding member of the Afghan Centre who, together with Safia Saddiqi, was a representative at the 69th PEN International.

Partaw Naderi, as a socio-political activist and poet, has more media and public visibility than any of his contemporaries in the country or abroad.

Partaw Naderi is the one of the only Afghan poets whose work is widely translated into different languages.

This small sample of Partaw's poems will reveal the precision and power of his imagery, and the clarity and startling colors of his prismatic poems.

Partaw Naderi, as a socio-political activist and poet, has more media and public visibility than any of his contemporaries in the country or abroad....

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Partaw Naderi was born in Badakhshan, a north eastern province of Afghanistan, in / He studied in his birthplace and graduated from the faculty of science, Kabul University in / He began to write poetry in the ’s.

He is now regarded as a leading poet in the modernist trend in Afghanistan. His experiments with ‘‘blank” and “free” verses distinguish him as a highly original and creative poet.

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Partaw Naderi

Translated from the Persian by Ahmadi

My mother was from the green tribe of grace

she spoke the language of the heavenly ones

she wore a silky scarf of faith

her heart resembled God’s throne –

and was as large as the Divine truth.

I could hear God’s voice from the heartbeats

and no one knew