Samad Behrangi
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Samad Behrangi (Persian: صمد بهرنگی, Azerbaijani: صمد بهرنگی, pronounced [sæmæd behrængiː]) (June 24, 1939 - August 31, 1967) was an Iranian Azeri socialist and writer. He is famous for his book for children, The Little Black Fish (ماهی سیاه کوچولو).
Born in Tabriz, Behrangi started teaching in village schools in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1957 which he continued for eleven years.
Apart from children's stories, he wrote many pedigological essays and collected and published several samples of oral Azerbaijani literature. His folklore studies have usually been done with the help of his colleague Behrooz Dehghani, who helped publish some of Behrangi's works after his early death. Behrangi also has a few Azerbaijani translations from Persian poems by Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad, and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales.
Behrangi's works for children and teens contain social themes of poverty and injustice, often with vague socialist or communist undertones, and are considered among the prominent works written for children in the Persian language in terms of structure and emotional impact. Some have criticized his alleged attempts to bias opinions of children towards socialist or communist ideas.[citation needed]
Behrangi drowned in the Aras river and his death was blamed on the Pahlavi regime.[citation needed]
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[edit] Some of His works
- The Little Black Fish (ماهی سیاه کوچولو)
- (Investigations into the Educational Problems of Iran)کندوکاو در مسائل تربیتی ایران
- کوراوغلو و کچل حمزه
[edit] Quotations
"We all die one day, sooner or later; it does not matter how we die, what matters is what we die for." -The Little Black Fish -Oldooz and crows -Talkhoon - one peach and 1000 peaches
[edit] Sources
- Preface and backcover text from Samad Behrangi, Talkhoon va Chand Ghesse-ye Digar (Talkhoon and other stories), Behrangi Publishings, Tabriz, 1998, ISBN 964-90517-2-4.
- Sirous Tahbaz, Samad Behrangi va Mahi-e Koochooloo-ye Daanaa (Samad Behrangi and the Wise Little Fish).
[edit] External links
- Samad Behrangi's life. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
- (Persian) / (Azerbaijani) Samad Site
- Samad Stories
- Samad Stories: The Little Black Fish
- Samad Stories: 24 Restless Hours
- Samad Stories: The Little Sugar Beet Vendor
- Samad Stories: The Tale of Love
- Samad Stories: Talkhun
- Samad Stories: In Search of Faith
- (Persian) / (German) Samad's life and the stories
- (Persian) Samad Behrangi's death accident - from Hamzeh Farahati's memoir
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