Paul Smith

Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Pashtu and other languages of Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, Obeyd Zakani, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Nesimi, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Mu'in, Mahsati, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Jigar, Seemab, Hali, Gaibi, Niyazi, Jigar, Seemab and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa