Esmaeel Azar or Amir Esmaeel Azar (Persian: اسماعیل آذر, born 9 December 1944, Isfahan, Iran)[1] is a professor of Persian literature and director of the Department of Persian Language at the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, and director of the Farhangban Cultural and Artistic Institute.
[2] He is a member of the Art commission at the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, Director of the Persian Literature Department at the Economic Cooperation Organization, Member of the Naming Committee at the National Organization for Civil Registration of Iran, member of the scientific commissions of the Public Libraries of Iran and a member of the board of directors of the Comparative Literature Association of Iran.
His mother was the principal of a girls' high school in Isfahan and his father was a government employee.
[4] He married at the age of 30 and has a child named Amir Hossein.
[5] He completed his primary and secondary education at Hatef Primary and Secondary School in Isfahan and then studied radiation therapy at the University of Isfahan, but left school and went to Tehran where he studied music and then him to Persian literature.