Born in 1973, Alireza Behnam is an Iranian poet and journalist. He is living in Tehran and works as a journalist in liberal local newspapers. He is also a poet and you can see some translations of his poems on this site. He also write down some criticism about cinema and literature.

In 1991 he attended Islamic Azad University at northern city of bojnord and in 1997 got his BSc in civil engineering. Afterwards he took a job in the now closed pro reform newspaper Akhbar. He was editor of art & literature in Azad daily newspaper which ended in august 2002 when a hardliner curt in Tehran banned it for the reason of publishing comments of a member of opposition.

After that Behnam was editor of art & literature in Modaber daily which ended in Feb.2003.

He is by now director of editorial board in Ketabe se hafte (book of three weeks) literary magazine and also works as editor of English section in NOANDISH (Neothinker) weekly:

"I was co-editor of Iranian section of "The muse apprentice guild" e-Journal in spring 2003 issue and I`m director of editoril board of "ketabe se hafte" a litrary Journal published in my homeland in persian. By now I`m working on a translation of beckett`s poetry to persian and there is a research on persian verses due to publish by me."

AWARDS:

Selected poem of International Library of Poetry - august 2002 
Blur Pen prize for criticism -June 2002

PUBLICATIONS: 

Behnam has published two collections of poetry.  One of them is "hands over whirlwind," released ln 2001.  His latest collection by the name "Its my half that is burning" was published in 2003.