Sasan

Sasan, Muhammad Husayn Sasanniya (1930-1958), a poet with the nom de plume Sasan, hailing from Mashhad. He settled with his family in Tehran at the age of eight, where he received his primary and secondary education at schools in Tehran and studied at the Officers’ College and became an officer in 1954. An active member of the Iran Literary Society, he published his patriotic poetry in periodicals, particularly in the Artish Journal. He lost his father in 1956 and lived with his mother and only sister to his last days. He was hospitalized at the Military Hospital No. 2 in late April 1958 and died of cancer on 23 June of the same year. His collection of poetry was posthumously published by Aman Allah Tahiri Simnani and Iraj Karimkhani in Tehran in 1959 together with the poetry of Muhammad ‘Ali Nasih, Hadi Ranji, Sadiq Sarmad, Gulchin Ma’ani, Aman Allah Tahiri, and Mawlawi (Tanha) who composed elegies for him.

Farhang-i Sha’iran-i Zaban-i Parsi az Aghaz ta Imruz (1/ 261).