Hossein Monzavi‎ (1936-2003) was an Iranian Azeri lyricist. His lyric poems are in both Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

 and Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

. He was born in Zanjan

Zanjan (city)

Zanjan is the capital of Zanjan Province in northwestern Iran. It is an Azeri inhabited city. It lies 298 km north-west of Tehran on the main highway to Tabriz and Turkey and approximately 125 km from the Caspian Sea...

. After education and living in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 for some years, he came back to his hometown. His father Mohammad Monzavi was also a poet that had written some poems in the same languages that wrote imitative poem for Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar's Heydar Babaya Salam

Heydar Babaya Salam

Heydar Babaya Salam is the best known poetical work by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar , a famous Iranian poet. Published in 1954, it is about Shahriyar's childhood and his memories of his village Khoshginab near Tabriz...

. Homayoun Shajarian

Homayoun Shajarian

Homayoun Shajarian is a renowned Persian classical music vocalist, as well as a Tombak and Kamancheh player.- Biography :...

, a Persian traditional singer, has used lyrics of Hossein Monzavi in
Setareh-ha (The Stars) music album. Hossein Monzavi died from cancer in Tehran in 2003.

Works

His Persian works are more than his Azeri. He much used Azeri folklores and legends in his poems. Hossein Monzavi's famous works are:

• Translating Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar's Heydar Babaya Salam
  Heydar Babaya Salam
  Heydar Babaya Salam is the best known poetical work by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar , a famous Iranian poet. Published in 1954, it is about Shahriyar's childhood and his memories of his village Khoshginab near Tabriz...
  
  and his father's imitative poem from Azeri to Persian.
• Duman (The Fog in Azeri) is Monzavi's Azeri poems collection which had been published in Danulduzu set of series with Maftoun Amini's prefatory.
• From hemlock and sugar, Persian lyrics collection (written from 1970 to 1988)
• With love around Calamity, Persian lyrics collection (written from 1988 to 1993)
• From cashmere and lyricism, Persian lyrics selection (1997)
• With Siavash among fire