Javad Mojabi Funeral: Writers and Artists Gather to Say Goodbye to the Celebrated Poet and Critic
The funeral ceremony of Javad Mojabi, the celebrated Iranian poet, novelist, satirist, journalist, painter and literary and art critic, was held on Wednesday morning, September 9, 2026, in front of his home in Koy-e Nevisandegan (Writers’ Alley) in Tehran.
Writers, poets, artists, journalists, cultural figures and members of the public gathered to pay their final respects to one of the important figures of modern Iranian literature and contemporary Iranian culture.
Mojabi died on Saturday, September 5, 2026, after a period of illness. He was 86 or 87 depending on the age calculation used by different reports. Iranian media have described him as a major figure whose career extended across literature, journalism, satire, painting, art criticism and cultural research.
The funeral ceremony was held outside the writer’s longtime home in the Koy-e Nevisandegan, a location with a particular significance for Iran’s literary community. According to reports from the ceremony, a number of prominent cultural figures spoke about Mojabi’s life, personality and literary legacy before his body was taken for burial at Imamzadeh Taher in Karaj.
Mojabi’s death marks the passing of a writer whose career cannot easily be placed into a single category.
He was a poet, but poetry represented only one part of his work.
He was a novelist and short-story writer, but he was also a historian and critic of Iranian modern art.
He was a journalist, but journalism was closely connected to his wider intellectual activities.
He was a satirist, painter and caricaturist, while also producing extensive research and critical writing about literature and visual arts.
For more than six decades, Javad Mojabi remained connected to the cultural life of Iran.
His death has therefore been described not simply as the loss of an individual writer, but as the departure of one of the last important representatives of a generation that helped shape modern Iranian literary and artistic culture.
September 10, 2026 | 10:40 am
