Bilal Yousaf

Bilal Yousaf (born in 1928) is a Persian writer.

Biography

Bilal Yousaf was born in a Zoroastrian family in Kerman. He came to Tehran for his High School and pursued his education there at Alborz High School. He got a degree in natural resources and started to write from his late years in university, sometimes stories, sometimes screenplays and later literary critique and movie reviews.

Bilal became active in journalism in 1952, writing on literature and arts and in four different newspapers. Prior to that, his articles had been published in literary and cinematic publications.

Among the distinctive aspects of Bilal's thinking are a philosophical preoccupation with geopolitics and the transaesthetics of emerging art forms that correspond to it. Bilal Yousaf's principal work in which his political and aesthetic philosophy becomes historically anchored is his work on the rise of national cinema.

Literary criticism

He published many works on literary criticism:[1]

References

  1. ↑ Parsinejad, Iraj. A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866–1951). Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2003. pp. 72.
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