Reza Baraheni

{{Short description|Iranian writer and academic (1935–2022)}}

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| death_place = Toronto, Canada

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Reza Baraheni ({{langx|fa|رضا براهنی}}; 13 December 1935 – 25 March 2022{{Cite news|url=https://www.radiofarda.com/a/prominent-iranian-poet-reza-barahani-passed-away-at-86/31769645.html|title = رضا براهنی، شاعر و نویسنده برجسته ایرانی، درگذشت| newspaper=رادیو فردا | date=25 March 2022 }}) was an IranianThe Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State at Bay? by Crawford Young, 1993, p. 126. novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.

Baraheni was born in Tabriz, Iran, in 1935. {{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03064227608532493 | doi=10.1080/03064227608532493 | title=The Shah's executioner | date=1976 | last1=Baraheni | first1=Reza | journal=Index on Censorship | volume=5 | pages=13–20 | s2cid=144161173 }} After studying there and in Turkey, he obtained a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Istanbul, and in 1963 was appointed Professor of English at Teheran University.{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03064227608532493 | doi=10.1080/03064227608532493 | title=The Shah's executioner | date=1976 | last1=Baraheni | first1=Reza | journal=Index on Censorship | volume=5 | pages=13–20 | s2cid=144161173 }}

Baraheni lived in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

He was the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory, and criticism, written in Persian and English.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

His works have been translated into a dozen of languages.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} His book, Crowned Cannibals, is accused by a few of containing some fabrications.Rewriting the Iranian Revolution: https://newrepublic.com/article/143713/rewriting-iranian-revolution

Moreover, he translated into Persian works by Shakespeare, Kundera, Mandelstam, Andrić, and Fanon.

Winner of the Scholars-at-Risk-Program Award of the University of Toronto and Massey College, Baraheni taught at the University of Tehran, Iran,{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and York University. He was also a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University, Britain, Fellow of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Fellow of Winters College, York University. He was president of PEN Canada.

He died on 24 March 2022 in Toronto, Canada, and was buried on 9 April 2022 at Elgin Mills Cemetery, Canada.{{Cite web |title=Reza Baraheni's Obituary |url=https://www.pen-international.org/news/reza-barahenis-obituary |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=PEN International |language=en-GB}}