1. Samad Behrangi was a Marxist-Leninist Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Iranian Azerbaijani descent.
11 Facts About Samad Behrangi
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Samad Behrangi is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish.
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Samad Behrangi was born on June 24,1939, in the neighborhood of Charandab in the city of Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran.
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Samad Behrangi was from a working-class family, his parents were Sara and Ezzat, and he had two brothers and three sisters.
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Samad Behrangi's father was a seasonal worker and his income was never sufficient.
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Samad Behrangi finished elementary school and three years of secondary school in Tabriz, before enrolling in a rural teacher training school.
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Samad Behrangi spent two years at the Daneshsarayea-Keshavarzi and finished the program in 1957; thus, only receiving few years of education.
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Samad Behrangi started publishing stories in 1960, his first being Adat.
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Samad Behrangi carried on writing stories, along translating from English and Azerbaijani to Farsi, and vice versa.
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Samad Behrangi drowned on August 31,1968, in the Aras river and his death was blamed on the Pahlavi government.
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Samad Behrangi was buried in the Imamieh cemetery in the Imamieh neighborhood of Tabriz.