Reza Hiwa is a poet, born in Tehran in 1955 to a Kurdish family migrated to a working class neighbourhood in Tehran. He grows as a migrant in his own country, forced to hide that they were Kurdish and specially his parents were Sunnis. He spends his young years there where the country’s ethnic mosaic was mixed. The misery pushes always the disenfranchised in province to the metropolis.
He goes to the university to realise the parents dream and become an engineer, the symbol of social promotion. But his soul is not there. The day before exams he swallows Beethoven, Marx and Hugo and instead of studying resistance of materials he thinks of another resistance.
He fights two dictatorships and ends up in exile. Here he is in France, father of three. Another gift of life makes him travel across Europe.
He claims that he’s a poet because he’s found the woman in himself and owes the whole thing to women’s love.
Finally he discovers his fetish book: the Man, which he reads with bulimia. He prefers street conversations to scholarly wrangling.
He says he is born to sow. To sow even if all makes him believe that he’s alone, isolated and marginal. To sow in spite of draught and inundation. Sowing the word of love can only bring Peace after all.
- First Name
- Reza
- Surname
- Hiwa
- Web Site
- https://tripadour.com/fr/people/reza-hiwa
- Mastodon
- https://mastodon.social/@rezahiwa
- Associated Events
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Soirée Poétique, Lycée Henri IV, Paris
Poésie en bandoulière
Soirée Néruda à Evry, Mars 2013
Cabaret-Poésie, Printemps des Poètes, 2014, Evry
Poésie engagée, Printemps des Poètes, 2014, Evry
Poésie dans tous ses états
Chargez vos plumes
Quand les oliviers se mettent à parler
2e Salon des Arts et de la Littérature à Perthes-en-Gâtinais
The Danger of Words in the Age of Danger
Lecture Poétique, Groupe Intuitiste, 2018
Printemps des Poètes: Scène de Thélème
Printemps des Poètes 2018, Bibliothèque d'Evry
Pain, Amour, Poésie, Soirée de poésie
Poésie, les sources