RASC News Agency: Abdul Karim Tamana, a famous Afghanistani poet from Herat province, died in Iran at the age of 83.
The news of Mr. Tamna’s death has been confirmed by his family in a post on social media.
Mr. Tamana was one of the prominent poets of Herat and was in charge of the public library in Herat province for 14 years.
It should be mentioned that a number of educators and politicians have published notes on the social media regarding the death of Mr. Tamana.
His son Faramarz Temana wrote in a note on X social media: “A father who was an example of wisdom, humility, truth and philanthropy and who lived his life with books and reading books and never strayed away from learning, today he is far from his country, joined to immortality.”
Rangin Dadfar Spanta, one of the political figures of the previous government, also called Abdul Karim Tamana a cultured poet in a note who “spent a lifetime in the service of literature and the people of Afghanistan.”
Humira Qadiri, a poet and writer, published a photo of him and called Abdul Karim Tamana a “free-thinking” poet who “had a fluent nature in writing odes and sonnets.”
On the website of “Mawlana’s House“, which is related to poets from Afghanistan, it is mentioned about the biography of Abdul Karim Tamana that he was born in 1319 in the village of Sarostan, located in the southeast of Herat city. In childhood period lost his parents when he was a child. In his teenage years, he did things like (accounting).
In the past month, this is the second Afghanistani poet who died away from his homeland. Two weeks ago, Wasif Bakhtari, one of the famous poets from Afghanistan, died in California, USA.
With the re-domination of the Taliban group in Afghanistan in 2021, a large number of Afghanistani poets and writers, like many other citizens, were forced to leave Afghanistan.
