Reza Baraheni

Reza Baraheni was born in Tabriz in December 1935 into a poor Azeri family and learned Persian at school, deprived of his mother tongue. A doctor of English literature from Istanbul University, he taught at the University of Tehran and became a widely read critic, before spending in 1973 more than a hundred days in prison and torture. Imprisoned again in 1981, he reached Canada in 1997, presided over PEN Canada, taught in Toronto, published more than fifty books and died in that city in March 2022.

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• Novelروزگار دوزخی آقای ایازReza Baraheni · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature