Houshang Golshiri

Houshang Golshiri (Persian: ‫ ; ﻫﻮﺷﻨﮓ ﮔﻠﺸﯿﺮی‬March 16, 1938[1] – June 6,

2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian
writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most
.[2]
influential writers of Persian prose of the 20th century

Contents
Biography
Early life
Writing career
International Speeches and Readings
Death
Golshiri Foundation
Works
Adaptations
Golshiri in 1975
See also
References
External links

Biography

Early life
Golshiri was born in Isfahan in 1938[3] and raised in Abadan. He came from a large
family of modest circumstances. From 1955 to 1974, Golshiri lived in Isfahan, where he
completed a bachelor's degree in Persian at the University of Isfahan and taught
elementary and high school there and in surrounding towns.

Writing career Tomb of Houshang Golshiri

Golshiri began writing fiction in the late 1950s. His publication of short stories in
Payam-e Novin and elsewhere in the early 1960s, his establishment of Jong-e Isfahan
(1965/73),[4] the chief literary journal of the day published outside of Tehran, and his participation in efforts to reduce official
censorship of imaginative literature brought him a reputation in literary circles
.

Golshiri's first collection of short stories was As Always (1968). He became famous for his first novel Prince Ehtejab (1968/69).
Translated in Literature East & West 20 (1980), it is the story of aristocratic decadence, implying the inappropriateness of monarchy
for Iran. Shortly after production of the popular feature film based on the novel, Pahlavi authorities arrested Golshiri and incarcerated
him for nearly six months.

An autobiographical and less successful novel called Christine and Kid came out in 1971, followed by a collection of short stories
called My Little Prayer Room1975, and a novel calledRa'i's Lost Lamb 1977.
In 1978, Golshiri travelled to the United States. Back in Iran in early 1979, Golshiri married Farzaneh Taheri whom he credits with
editing his subsequent writing and was active in the revitalized Association of Iranian Writers, the editing of journals, literary
criticism, and short-story writing. In the 1980s, he published The Fifth Innocent (1980), The Antique Chamber (1983), The Story of
the Fisherman and the Demon (1984), and Five Treasures (1989), which he published in Stockholm during a visit to Europe in 1989.
In 1990, under a pseudonym, Golshiri published a novella in translation called King of the Benighted, an indictment of Iranian
monarchy, engage Persian literature, the Tudeh Party, and the Islamic Republic. A collection of Golshiri stories in translation was
scheduled for publication in 1991 with the titleBlood and Aristocrats and Other Stories.

In the winter of 1998 he published The Book of Genies and Struggle of Image with Painter, and in the autumn of 1999 he released a
collection of articles calledGarden in Garden.

In 1999 Golshiri was awarded the Erich-Maria Remarque Peace Prize for his struggle to promote democracy and human rights in
Iran.[5]

International Speeches and Readings

In 1989, in his first trip abroad after the revolution, Golshiri went to the Netherlands along with various cities in the UK and Sweden
to give speeches and readings. In 1990, he traveled to the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany. On this trip, he spoke and
gave readings in various cities in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and France. In the spring two years later, he went to Germany, the
United States, Sweden, and Belgium. In 1993, he visited Germany
, the Netherlands, and Belgium again.

Death
He died at Iran Mehr Hospital inTehran on 6 June 2000 at the age of 62 after suffering from meningitis.

Golshiri Foundation
[6] It runs the prestigiousHooshang Golshiri Literary Awards.
A cultural foundation was established after his death.

Works
The Book of Genies (Jen Nameh)
Struggle of Image with Painter(Jedal-e Naghsh ba Naghash)
Garden in Garden (Bagh dar Bagh)
The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon(Hadis-e Mahigir va Div)
The Fifth Innocent (Massoum-e Panjom)
Five Treasures (Panj Ganj)
Christine and Kid (Keristin va Kid)
Ra'i's Lost Lamb (volume 1): Burial of the Living(Barreh-ye Gomshodeh-ye ra'i: (jeld-e Avval) tadfin-e Zendegan)
My Little Prayer Room (Namazkhaneh-ye kuchek-e man)
As Always (Mesl-e hamisheh)
Prince Ehtejab (Shazdeh ehtejab)
The Antique Chamber (Jobbeh'khaneh)

Adaptations
The novel Prince Ehtejab (Shazdeh Ehtejab) was adapted into a film with the same title byBahman Farmanara,1974
The short story First Innocent (Masoome Aval) was adapted into a film withthe title "Tall Shadows of the Wind"
(Sayehaye Bolande Bad) by Bahman Farmanara,1978
In 2013, Ali Zare Ghanat Nowi released Dad's Fragile Doll[7] which narrates the story of a political prisoner who has
a kid. The family gets upset with arresting the father but the girl dreams about killing the man who arrested him. The
screenplay was adopted from a story by Houshang Golshiri with the same title. It won the best animation of veteran's
festival in Australia.[8]
See also
Golshiri Foundation website
Persian literature

References
1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92629498/houshang-golshiri
2. Houshang Golshiri (2000-06-05)."Houshang Golshiri iranian fiction book writer"(http://www.mage.com/authors/golsh
iri_biography.html). Mage.com. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
3. Hušang Golširi (b. 1937)(http://www.iranicaonline.org/pages/chronology-4) iranicaonline.org
4. "‫( "ﻫﻮﺷﻨﮓ ﮔﻠﺸﯿﺮی‬http://www.aftab.ir/articles/art_culture/issue/c5c1178795036_golshiri_p1.php). Aftab.ir. 2007-05-
10. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
5. Houshang Golshiri (2000-06-05)."Houshang Golshiri iranian fiction book writer"(http://www.mage.com/authors/golsh
iri_biography.html). Mage.com. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
6. "Index" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121231092752/http://www .golshirifoundation.org/english/index.asp).
Golshirifoundation.org. Archived fromthe original (http://golshirifoundation.org/english/index.asp)on 2012-12-31.
Retrieved 2012-09-05.
7. "‫( "اﻧﯿﻤﯿﺸﻦ اﯾﺮاﻧﯽ ﺑﺮﮔﺰﯾﺪه اﺳﭙﺎﻧﯿﺎﯾﯽﻫﺎ‬http://www.aftabir.com/news/article/view/2016/02/08/1137549). 8 .‫ﺧﺒﺮﮔﺰاری آﻓﺘﺎب‬
February 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
8. "‫( "ﭘﻮﯾﺎﻧﻤﺎﯾﯽ "ﻋﺮوﺳﮏ ﭼﯿﻨﯽ ﺑﺎﺑﺎ" ﻓﯿﻨﺎﻟﯿﺴﺖ ﺟﺸﻨﻮاره اﺳﺘﺮاﻟﯿﺎ ﺷﺪ‬http://www.mehrnews.com/news/4048282)(in Persian).
2 .‫ ﺧﺒﺮﮔﺰاری ﻣﻬﺮ‬August 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2018.

External links
Golshiri foundation

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