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Samad Behrangi (Template:Lang-fa Template:Lang-az, [sæmæd behrænɡiː]; June 24, 1939 - August 31, 1967) was an Iranian teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azeri extraction.^[1] He is famous for his children's book, The Little Black Fish.

Life

He was born in Tabriz to a lower-class Azari-speaking family. He finished elementary school and three years of secondary school before enrolling in a teacher training school, finishing the program in 1957. In the next eleven years, while teaching Persian in rural Azerbaijani schools, he attained a B.A. degree in English from Tabriz University.^[2]

Literary works

Apart from Children's Stories, he wrote many pedagogical essays and collected and published several samples of oral Azerbaijani literature. His folklore studies have usually been done with the help of his colleague Behrooz Dehghani, who helped publish some of Behrangi's works after his early death. Behrangi also has a few Azerbaijani translations from Persian poems by Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad, and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales.

Death

Behrangi drowned in the Aras river and his death was blamed on the Pahlavi regime.^[3] According to Persian BBC News, Hamzeh Farahati who accompanied him at the time of the death narrates that the incident was just a common drowning and revolutionaries' allegations of governmental involvement originated from their need to fabricate a martyr.^[4]

Some of his works

The Little Black Fish
Investigations into the Educational Problems of Iran (کندوکاو در مسائل تربیتی ایران )

Quotations

"We all die one day, sooner or later; it does not matter how we die, what matters is what we die for." -The Little Black Fish -Oldooz and crows -Talkhoon - one peach and 1000 peaches

Photo gallery

Samad Behrangi's grave

Samad Behrangi's grave
Samad Behrangi's grave

Samad Behrangi's grave
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File:Samad behranghi04.jpg

Sources

Milani, Abbas. "Samad Behrangi," in Eminent Persians Vol. 2. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008, pp. 838-842
Preface and backcover text from Samad Behrangi, Talkhoon va Chand Ghesse-ye Digar (Talkhoon and other stories), Behrangi Publishings, Tabriz, 1998, ISBN 964-90517-2-4.
Sirous Tahbaz, Samad Behrangi va Mahi-e Koochooloo-ye Daanaa (Samad Behrangi and the Wise Little Fish).

^ Hillmann, Michael. "Samad Behrangi," Encyclopaedia Iranica, available online at http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v4f1/v4f1a067.html.
^ Hillmann.
^ Samad Behrangi - Iran Chamber Society
^ BBC Persian: Samad Behrangi's death accident - from Hamzeh Farahati's memoir

External links

[1] Hillmann, Michael. "Samad Behrangi," Encyclopaedia Iranica, available online at http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v4f1/v4f1a067.html.

[2] Hillmann.

[3] Samad Behrangi - Iran Chamber Society

[4] BBC Persian: Samad Behrangi's death accident - from Hamzeh Farahati's memoir

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+'''Samad Behrangi''' ({{lang-fa|'''صمد بهرنگی'''}} {{lang-az|'''صمد بهرنگی - Səməd Behrəngi'''}}, {{IPA-fa|sæmæd behrænɡiː|}}; June 24, 1939 -  August 31, 1967) was an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of [[Azeri]] extraction.<ref>Hillmann, Michael. "Samad Behrangi," ''Encyclopaedia Iranica'', available online at http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v4f1/v4f1a067.html. </ref> He is famous for his children's book, ''[[The Little Black Fish]]''.
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