Abolqasem Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Tus in
940. His great epic, Shahnameh, was originally composed for the
Samanid princes of Khorasan. Ferdowsi died around 1020 in
poverty.
Dick Davis is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State
University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His
translations from Persian include The Lion and the Throne, Fathers
and Sons, and Sunset of Empire- Stories from the Shahnameh of
Ferdowsi, Vols. I, II, III.
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