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Reza Baraheni | |
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| Born | (1935-12-13)13 December 1935 |
| Died | 25 March 2022(2022-03-25) (aged 86) Toronto, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, poet and critic |
Reza Baraheni (Persian:رضا براهنی; 13 December 1935 – 25 March 2022[1]) was an Iranian[2] novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.
Baraheni was born in Tabriz, Iran, in 1935.[3] After studying there and in Turkey, he obtained a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Istanbul, and in 1963 was appointed Professor of English at Teheran University.[4]
Baraheni lived inToronto, Canada, where he taught at the Center for Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Toronto.
He was the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction and literary theory and criticism in Persian and English.[citation needed] His works have been translated into a dozen languages.[citation needed]Moreover, he translated into Persian works byShakespeare,Kundera,Mandelstam,Andrić, andFanon.
Winner of the Scholars-at-Risk-Program Award of the University of Toronto andMassey College, Baraheni taught at theUniversity of Tehran, Iran,[citation needed] theUniversity of Texas at Austin,Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, andYork University. He was also a Fellow ofSt. Antony's College,Oxford University, Britain, Fellow of theUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, and Fellow of Winters College,York University. He was president ofPEN Canada.
He died on 24 March 2022 in Toronto, Canada, and was buried on 9 April 2022 at Elgin Mills Cemetery, Canada.[5]
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