Samad Behrangi: Teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer

Behrangī began writing short stories and translating from Turkish into Persian in the late 1950s. He published his first story, “Talḵūn,” in the spring of 1964. In the spring of 1965, he and Behrūz Dehqānī published the first volume of Afsānahā-ye Āḏarbāyjān (Tales of Azerbaijan). The second volume of these Persian versions of Turkish tales appeared in the spring of 1968.