Cyrus Atabay

Cyrus Atabay
Grave tomb of Cyrus Atabay in Munich
Born	(1929-09-06)September 6, 1929 Tehran, Iran
Died	January 26, 1996(1996-01-26) (aged 66) Munich, Germany
Nationality	Iranian
Parents	Hadi Atabay (father) Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi (mother)
Relatives	Fatimeh Pahlavi (aunt), Mohammadreza Pahlavi (uncle), Reza Shah (grandfather)
Family	Pahlavi dynasty
Awards	1957: Hugo-Jacobi-Preis 1990: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize

Cyrus Atabay (1929–1996) was a Persian-German poet. He mostly wrote in German and also translated works of Persian literature into German.

He was the son of Hadi Atabay and Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi, the first daughter of Reza Shah. Atabay was of the Pahlavi dynasty. During World War II he studied German literature in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He passed his last years of life in Germany from 1983 to 1996.