Samad Behrangi

Samad Behrangi ( _az. 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".

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 pedagogical 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 drowned in the Aras river and his death was blamed on the Pahlavi regime by some intellectuals. However Hamzeh Farahati who accompanied him at the time of the death narrates that the incident was just a common drowning and revolutionaries' allegations of governmental involvement originated from their need to fabricate a martyr. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2006/11/061120_mv-mb-samad-hamze.shtml] BBC Persian: Samad Behrangi's death accident - from Hamzeh Farahati's memoir]

ome of his works

*The Little Black Fish
* Investigations into the Educational Problems of Iran (کندوکاو در مسائل تربیتی ایران )

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

ources

* 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

* [http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Authors/Behrangi.html Samad Behrangi's life] . A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
*fa icon / az icon [http://www.samad.8k.com/ Samad Site]
* [http://members.aol.com/iaczine/samad.html Samad Stories]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_little_black_fish.php Samad Stories: The Little Black Fish]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/24_restless_hours.php Samad Stories: 24 Restless Hours]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_little_sugar_beet_vendor.php Samad Stories: The Little Sugar Beet Vendor]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_tale_of_love.php Samad Stories: The Tale of Love]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/talkhun.php Samad Stories: Talkhun]
* [http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/in_search_of_faith.php Samad Stories: In Search of Faith]
*fa icon / de icon [http://members.chello.at/plejaden/behrangi.html Samad's life and the stories]