Samad Behrangi
Samad Behrangi (Persian: صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968)[1] was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent.[2] He is famous for his children’s books, particularly The Little Black Fish.[3][4] Influenced by predominantly leftist ideologies that were common among the intelligentsia of his era, which made him popular among the Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas, his books typically portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and encouraged the individual to change his/ her circumstances by her own initiatives…. more
Samad Behrangi was born in the Cherendab district of Tabriz in 1939, Azerbaijan province. He received his early education in Tabriz and graduated from high school in 1957 and at the same year started teaching in village schools in the Azar Shahr district, about 50 kilometers southwest of Tabriz, which he continued for eleven years…. more
Samad Behrangi was born in 1939 in Tabriz, in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan (not to be confused with the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan). His parents were working class and struggled. Although his mother tongue was the Azeri dialect of Turkish, he became a teacher of Persian and his published writings are in Persian… more