Modern Persian

American  

noun

1. the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.

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Example Sentences

Iraj Pezeshkzad, an Iranian writer whose satirical 1973 novel “My Uncle Napoleon,” affectionately skewering the foibles of his countrymen and -women in the decades before the Islamic Revolution, became a phenomenally popular work of modern Persian literature, died Jan. 12 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was believed to be 95.

From Washington Post

You’ll find complex stews, crispy rice dishes known as tahdig and even a few modern Persian twists on American ingredients.

From Washington Post

Fatemeh Shams, an Iranian poet and professor of modern Persian literature at University of Pennsylvania, said Forough’s poetry was at times seen as so rebellious that it was kept hidden.

From The Guardian

Forty miles south of London, in a quiet West Sussex village, lives a 94-year-old Iranian intellectual who has for half a century kept silent about his former lover, a giant of modern Persian literature who was killed in a car accident aged just 32.

From The Guardian

In each, Neshat inscribed some part of the anatomy—hands, face, or feet—with tiny calligraphy from modern Persian poetry, in red, black, or both.

From The New Yorker