Amir Houshang Ebtehaj was born to Mirza Agha-Khan Ebtehaj and Fatemeh Rafat in February 1928 in Rasht, the capital of the northern province of Gilan. His father, Mirza-Khan Ebtehaj, was the medical director of Rasht’s Poursina Hospital. Mr. Ebtehaj published his first collection of poems, “Nakhostine Naghmeha” (“The First Songs”), in 1946 when he was only 19 years old. His other published collection of poems include “Sarab” (“Mirage,” 1951), “Siyah Mashgh I” (“Black Exercise” [Sheets] I, 1953), “Shabgir” (“Nocturnal,” 1953), “Zamin” (“Earth,” 1955), “Chan Barg Az Yalda” (“A few Pages From Yalda,” 1965), “Siyah Mashgh II” (Black Practice [Sheets] II, 1973), “Ta Sobhe Shabe Yalda,” (Until the Dawn of the Longest Night, 1981), “Yadegar Khoone Cyprus” (Memorial for the Blood of the Cypress, 1981), “Siyah Mashgh III” (1985), “Siyah Mashgh IV” (1992), “Aynen dar Ayneh” (“Mirror within a Mirror,” 1995, selected poems compiled by M.R. Shafie-Kadkani), “Tasian” (“Dispirited,” 2006), and “Hafez Be Sa’ye Sayeh” (“Hafez, With An Effort From Sayeh,” 1994).