Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Reza Baraheni (Persian: رضا براهنی, born in Tabriz, Iran in 1935), an ethnic "Azerbaijani" (Azeri - Turkish speaking), is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic, and political activist. Former president of PEN Canada, the often called "Iran's finest living Writer"[citation needed] lives in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He’s the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory and criticism, written in Persian and English.[citation needed]His works has been translated in a dozen of languages.[citation needed]Moreover, he has translated into Persian works by Shakespeare, Kundera, Mandelstam, Andric, and Fanon.Winner of the Scholars-at-Risk-Program Award of the University of Toronto and Massey College, Baraheni has taught in the University of Tehran, Iran,[citation needed] University of Texas in Austin, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the University of Toronto and York University. He has also been Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Britain, Fellow of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Fellow of Winters College, York University.. }
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- Reza_Baraheni abstract "Reza Baraheni (Persian: رضا براهنی, born in Tabriz, Iran in 1935), an ethnic "Azerbaijani" (Azeri - Turkish speaking), is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic, and political activist. Former president of PEN Canada, the often called "Iran's finest living Writer"[citation needed] lives in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He’s the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory and criticism, written in Persian and English.[citation needed]His works has been translated in a dozen of languages.[citation needed]Moreover, he has translated into Persian works by Shakespeare, Kundera, Mandelstam, Andric, and Fanon.Winner of the Scholars-at-Risk-Program Award of the University of Toronto and Massey College, Baraheni has taught in the University of Tehran, Iran,[citation needed] University of Texas in Austin, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the University of Toronto and York University. He has also been Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Britain, Fellow of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Fellow of Winters College, York University.".