15 Facts About Bahram Beyzai

Since 2010, Bahram Beyzai has lived and taught at Stanford University, United States.

Bahram Beyzai was born in Tehran, to a poet, anthologist and biographer father and a housewife mother.

Bahram Beyzai's father made a living through a legal occupation and could reasonably attend to his literary interests.

Bahram Beyzai Beizai started skipping school from around the age of 17 in order to go to movies which were becoming popular in Iran at a rapid pace.

The young Bahram Beyzai did not seem very interested in his family legacy, poetry, which was pursued by his father, uncles and cousins.

In 1968, Bahram Beyzai was one of the nine founders of the Iranian Writers' Guild, a highly controversial organization in the face of censorship.

Bahram Beyzai writes as though he had a sad look in his eyes, a detached and philosophical understanding in his tone.

Bahram Beyzai married the actress and make-up artist Mozhdeh Shamsai in 1992.

Bahram Beyzai left Iran in 2010 at the invitation of Stanford University, and has since been the Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, teaching courses in Persian theatre, cinema and mythology.

Bahram Beyzai has given workshops on the Shahnameh, the history of Iranian performing arts, Iranian and Semitic myths, etc.

Bahram Beyzai has staged several plays, including his nine-hour Tarabnameh.

Bahram Beyzai is known as the most intellectual and conspicuous "author" in Iranian cinema and theater.

Bahram Beyzai is considered Iran's most prominent screenwriter in terms of the dramatic integrity of his works, many of which have been made into films.

Bahram Beyzai was voted the best Persian filmmaker in 2002, and his Bashu, the Little Stranger was voted the finest Persian film ever.

Ebrahim Golestan, who had previously objected to Bahram Beyzai's style, praised him in a letter in 2017.