Samad Behrangi

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Samad Behrangi

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).

Born in Tabriz, Behrangi started teaching in village schools in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1957 which he continued for eleven years.

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.

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

Behrangi drowned in the Aras river. Most people believe that he was killed by the agents of the Pahlavi government of Iran, because he spoke out on the corruptness of the regime, while some others believe that he simply drowned .

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.

Samad Site in Fari: http://www.samad.8k.com/
Samad Stories (English): http://members.aol.com/iaczine/samad.html
The Little Black Fish (English)

http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_little_black_fish.php

http://members.aol.com/iaczine/mahi.html

Samad Stories: 24 Restless Hours (English)

http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/24_restless_hours.php

http://members.aol.com/iaczine/rest24.html

Samad Stories: The Little Sugar Beet Vendor (English) http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_little_sugar_beet_vendor.php

http://members.aol.com/iaczine/beet.html

Samad Stories: The Tale of Love

http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_tale_of_love.php

Samad Stories: Talkhun (English)

http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/talkhun.php

Samad Stories: In Search of Faith

http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/in_search_of_faith.php

Quotations

The Little Black Fish: We all die one day sooner or later, it does not matter how we die, what matters is what we die for.

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