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

In early September of 1968, on one of his wonted field trips to gather folklore and stories, this time to the Ḵodā Āfarīn area near the Iran-USSR border, Behrangī, who could not swim, reportedly went wading in the Aras river and drowned. This bizarre death in a far­away region combined with his growing reputation as a social critic and the presumed concern on the part of government authorities with his writing convinced some like-minded people that his death was not accidental.