11 Facts About Akbar Radi

Abar Radi or Akbar Radi was an Iranian playwright.

Akbar Radi completed his studies at the University of Tehran in social sciences.

Akbar Radi received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Tehran's Faculty of Letters and Humanities in 1964, and stayed on to continue his graduate studies in the same discipline, but he dropped out before completing his master's degree.

Akbar Radi began teaching playwriting as a free-lance lecturer in the University of Tehran in 1996, a position that he held until 1998.

In weaving this traditional dramatic piece into the heart of his drama, Akbar Radi employs the method of alienation by making the king laugh at what he himself does along with the audience.

Akbar Radi completed Bu-ye baran latif ast in 1997, and Amiz Qalamdun in 1998.

Melodi-e sahr-e barani, and a series of articles called Ensan-e rikteh, as well as Kanumeh o mahtabi, one of the plays most admired by Akbar Radi himself, were published from 2000 to 2003.

Akbar Radi remained a prolific writer through the final years of his life.

Akbar Radi finished writing his last play, Ahangha-ye sokolati amidst a year-long battle with cancer, to which he succumbed on 12 December 2007.

Senakt-nameh-ye Akbar Radi, edited by Faramarz Talebi, was published in 2004, and Akbar Radi's Award was introduced in the same year by the University Theatre Festival in Tehran.

Akbar Radi's play called From Behind the Windows was translated into English by well-known Iranian writer and translator, Reza Shirmarz.