Houshang Golshiri

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Houshang Golshiri (Persian: هوشنگ گلشیری; March 16, 1938[1] – June 5, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the 20th century… more

Houshang Golshiri Fiction writer, critic and editor was born in Esfahan in 1937 and raised in Abadan. His was a large family of modest circumstances. From 1955 to 1974, Golshiri lived in Esfahan, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in Persian at the University of Esfahan and taught elementary and high school there and in surrounding towns….. more

Houshang Golshiri Foundation Website… more

Fiction writer, critic, and editor, Houshang Golshiri was born in Isfahan in 1937. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the twentieth century… more

Across more than three decades, Hushang Golshiri, who has died aged 63, produced some of the finest novels and short stories in recent Iranian history. In turbulent times, he was also pulled, unwillingly, into politics, organising writers against the Shah’s censorship – and that of the current Islamic government. As a result, he was persecuted by both regimes…. more

English Translated Short Stories… more