Siavash Kasraie

Biography

Siavash Kasrai (February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996; Persian: سیاوش کسرائی) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s, he distanced himself from its leadership in 1988–1990, and turned into an outspoken critic in the mid 1990s.