Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی) (July?, 1939 – 1967) was an Azeri Iranian writer. He is famous for his book for children, The Little Black Fish (ماهی سیاه کوچولو). Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Azeri are the dominant Turkic people of Azerbaijan and Arran, which were a part of Persia, until the Azeri khanates north of the Araks River were overrun and absorbed into Tsarist Russia in the early 19th century. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

Born in Tabriz, Behrangi started teaching in village schools in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1957 which he continued for eleven years. Tabriz City Hall, built in 1895, by Arfaol molk, with the aid of German engineers. ... The Iranian Azerbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان ایران; Āzarbāyjān-e Irān) is a region in the northwest of Iran, approximately consisting of the provinces of Ardebil, East Azarbaijan, and West Azarbaijan. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Behrangi also has stories in the Azerbaijani language and a few Azerbaijani translations from Persian poems by Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad, and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales. The Azerbaijanian language, also called Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, or Azerbaijanian Turkish, is the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan. ... Jump to: navigation, search Persian (فارسی / پارسی), (local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan: ‘Fârsi’), ‘Pârsi’ (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, western Pakistan... Ahmad shamlou Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو in Persian; December 12, 1925 — July 24, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. ... Forooghs tomb is located in Darband, Shemiran, Tehran. ... Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (also -Saless) (مهدی اخ&#امید) was a prominent Iranian poet. ...

Apart from children stories, he wrote many pedigological essays and has collected and published several samples of oral Azerbaijani literature. His folklore studies has usually been done with the help of his colleague Behrooz Dehghani, who helped publish some of Behrangi's works after his early death.

Behrangi's works for children and teens contain social themes of poverty and injustice and are considered the best works written for childern in Persian language in terms of structure and emotional impact.Some criticise his alleged attempts in directing the bias of children to specific social and political ideas.

Behrangi was drowned in the Aras river. Some people believe that he was killed by the agents of the Pahlavi government of Iran, while some others believe that he simply drowned . Aras, Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz (Persian: ارس, Azerbaijani: Araz), is a river rising in Anatolia in Turkey, flowing along the Turkey-Armenia border, then along the Azerbaijan-Iran border, entering Azerbaijan, and falling into Kura river as a right tributary. ... The Pahlavi dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Iran from 1925 to 1979, from which two Shahs were drawn. ...

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).

External links

• Samad Behrangi's life. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.