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Samad Behrangi (Azerbaijani: 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. As an Azeri, Samad Behrangi wrote in Azerbaijani Turkic rather than Persian.1 However, he was not allowed to publish his works in Azeri, so he had to translate them into Persian in order to make them avalaible in Iran.2
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.3 According to Persian BBC News, 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.4 According to Iraj Bashiri, who is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota,
| “ | Behrangi died in a swimming accident in a river in Azerbaijan, an accident which, generally, is understood to have been an act of the SAVAK (the Shah's secret police).5 | ” |
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"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