Esmail Khoi

Esmail Khoi or Esmail Khoyi (Persian: اسماعیل خویی; 30 June 1938 – 25 May 2021)^[1] was an Iranian poet and writer.^[2] He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s.^[3] Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution.^[4] He was a member of the Iranian Writers' Association. His poems have been translated in many languages, including English, French, Russian, German and Ukrainian. He wrote a poetry book in English called "Voice of Exile", "What is shall be what is not". He is the first Iranian writer to be awarded the Coburg Rückert Prizen for literature, which he received in 2010.

Esmail Khoi
Native name	اسماعیل خویی
Born	(1938-06-30)30 June 1938 Mashhad, Iran
Died	25 June 2021(2021-06-25) (aged 82) London, United Kingdom
Resting place	Cremated, ashes buried at Golders Green Crematorium
Occupation	Writer, Poet
Citizenship	Iran United Kingdom
Alma mater	Tehran Supreme University London University
Spouse	Franca Gallio ​ (divorced)​ Roxana Saba ​ (divorced)​
Children	4

Selected bibliography

• Edges of Poetry:Selected Poetry (Blue Logos Press, 1995)
• Outlandia:Song of Exile (Nik Publishers, 1999)