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Houshang Golshiri

Died in 2000

Houshang Golshiri was born in Isfahan on 16 March 1938 and grew up in Abadan, where his father, a building worker, was building for the oil company. Back in Isfahan, he taught in village schools while studying Persian. Arrested in early 1962 for supposed links with the Tudeh, he spent several months in prison and obtained his degree the same year. He was one of the founders of the journal Jong-e Esfahan. Detained again and barred from teaching, he moved in 1974 to Tehran, where he taught at the Fine Arts. Married in 1979 to Farzaneh Taheri, he received the Erich Maria Remarque Prize in 1999 and died in Tehran on 5 June 2000.

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