Biography

A literary life

Reza Farrokhfal, born in 1328 / 1949, is an Iranian writer, editor, translator, and teacher of Persian language and literature. He began his literary career in the late 1960s by publishing short stories in Jong-e Isfahan, one of the important literary periodicals associated with Houshang Golshiri and his circle. Since then, his fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Iran, and his story collection Ah, Istanbul has often been regarded as one of the notable works of Iranian fiction of the 1980s. Farrokhfal also worked for many years as an editor for major publishers and was among the founders of the first association of editors in Iran. His essays on literary theory, cultural study, and classical Persian literature were collected in Hadith-e Ghorbat-e Saadi, published by Nashr-e Markaz. He studied at Pahlavi University in Shiraz and Concordia University in Montreal, and has taught Persian at McGill University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Colorado Boulder.