Reza Baraheni
Reza Baraheni (Persian: رضا براهنی; 13 December 1935 – 25 March 2022[1]) was an Iranian[2] novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.
Baraheni lived in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.
He was the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory, and criticism, written in Persian and English.[citation needed]
His works have been translated into a dozen of languages… more
Reza Baraheni was one of Iran’s most important literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Polymath novelist, essayist, translator, and public intellectual he was notably considered the “founder of modern literary criticism in Iran”, and was rated “Iran’s finest living poet” in 1977 by Harper’s Magazine… more
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Reza Baraheni was born in Tabriz in 1935. At the age of 22, he received a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Tabriz University. Then, he went to Turkey and returned to Iran after receiving a Ph.D. degree in his field and began teaching at the university…. more