Amin Faghiri (Persian: امین فقیری) (30 Shiraz Persian date Azar 1322 AH, 22 December 1943 CE) is an Iranian researcher and writer.

Early life

Amin Faghiri is from

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and was born into a large family. He had a difficult childhood. ''Pour with the rain'' is a documentary about him by

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Writing

His early difficulties led him to write short stories. He had a precise method and style of writing. His stories employed

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and an honest visual style. His first collection of short stories took four years to write. At the age of 23, he published ''Primal''. The book was published five times before the

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. The sixth edition was published in 1382 (2003 CE). In the book, he described the loneliness and boredom of rural teachers. He also told stories of peasant violence and the sociological persecution they faced. Faghiri, alongside Mahoud Dowlat Abadi, was one of the first Iranian rural story writers. The stories in the collection have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including English, German, Russian, Urdu, Italian, French, and Japanese. He has nineteen books in total.

Selected Works/Publications

* ''Primal'' * ''Anxiety Gardens Alley, Tehran'', 1969 * ''Feuer unterm Pfauenthron. Verbotene Geschichten aus dem persischen Widerstand. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Bahman Nirumand unter Mitarbeit von Peter Schneider'', 1974 (Contributing author) * ''My Beautiful Deer'', 1990 * ''A Journey in Attraction and Pain'', 1974 * ''Im Atem Des Drachen: Moderne Persische Erzählungen'', 1991 (Contributing author) * ''THE BOOK OF CAT'', 2016

Honors

Faghiri won the Golden Tablet for best fiction in 1376 (1997 CE).

References

External links

''THE PERMAL VILLAGE (1397)''-Documentary of Amin Faghiri
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