User:Mehryar Mehrafarin

Mehryar Mehrafarin is a visionary, writer, and poet. He was born and raised in Iran. This extraordinary man's journey has taken him from the edge of death to becoming a visionary.

From the age of thirteen to thirty he was a national champion in track and field. He wrote his first book at the young age of sixteen. As a young man, his friends and family recognized and attested to his talent as a creator and writer of new thoughts and philosophy. Though growing up in a chaotic time in Iran, he was brave enough to write about controversial issues such as violence, death, freedom, and love. his writings appealed to men and women, young and old. His writings were so challenging to the ideas of the Islamic Republic of Iran that his family and friends urged him to hide them and never make them known to public. During his time in Iran, Mehryar Mehrafarin wrote twenty-five books. In addition, he created a newspaper called Checkameh, which was distributed once and was banned from publication because the content went against the beliefs of Iran. He realized that he and his thoughts and philosophy did not have a place in his home country.

Two of his books that were printed but never distributed were O'Love and Fidelity of the Mallet. These two books, though beautiful, were detrimental to his life in Iran. In the book O' Love, Mehryar called himself the messenger of peace of love and called the United States heaven on earth. This beautiful book of poems caused him grief and hardship, to the extent that he had to escape his native country in Iran in 2000 or be executed. He became a refuge in Norway after a year of vagrancy. In just a few months he became a member of the "Norsk Forfattersentrum" an organization of Norwegian poets and fiction writers.

In 2005, he and his son Rostam entered this free land of opportunity, The United States. Since then Mehryar has written nearly thirty-five books. Mehryar Mehrafarin and his work are unique and unlike any others. Each work is a cultural revolution and will help shape a new world.