Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی) (July?, 1939 – 1967) was an Iranian writer. He is famous for his book for children, The Little Black Fish (ماهی سیاه کوچولو).

Born in Tabriz, Behrangi started teaching in village schools in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1957 which he continued for eleven years.

Behrangi also has stories in the Azerbaijani language and a few Azerbaijani translations from Persian poems by Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad, and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales.

Apart from children stories, he wrote many pedigological essays and has collected and published several samples of oral Azerbaijani literature. His folklore studies has usually been done with the help of his colleague Behrooz Dehghani , who helped publish some of Behrangi's works after his early death.

Behrangi was drowned in the Aras river. Some people believe that he was killed by the agents of the Pahlavi government of Iran, while some others believe that he simply was drowned because he didn't know how to swim properly.

Sources

• Preface and backcover text from Samad Behrangi, Talkhoon va Chand Ghesse-ye Digar (Talkhoon and other stories), Behrangi Publishings, Tabriz, 1998, ISBN 964-90517-2-4.
• Sirous Tahbaz, Samad Behrangi va Mahi-e Koochooloo-ye Daanaa (Samad Behrangi and the Wise Little Fish).

External links

• Samad Behrangi's life. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.