Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938, in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian.

In 1959, he started to study Persian at Uppsala University for his mentor Henrik Samuel Nyberg and defended his PhD thesis in 1973.

His thesis is a critical edition of the Sufi masnavi poem Tariq to-tahqiq which has been ascribed to Hakim Sanai of Ghazna.

[3] Bo Utas has translated several Persian classical and modern literary works into Swedish, including the Buf-e kur (Blind Owl) by Sadeq Hedayat.

Bo Utas collected essays on and translations of Persian literature in Swedish has been published with the title Persiska litteraturen: Essäer och översättningar and edited by his pupil Ashk Dahlén.