M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar is a Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, whose expertise includes the works of Simin Daneshvar, Sadeq Chubak, and Sadeq Hedayat.

Background

Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar grew up in Isfahan, Iran.

In 1966, he received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Isfahan. Later that year, he received a German Language Proficiency Certificate from the Goethe Institute in Germany and then studied English Literature and Sociology at the University of Heidelberg through 1967. Coming to the USA later that year, he studied Foreign Language Teaching at Saint Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont. He went on to English Literature and Linguistics at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas through 1970. In 1972, he earned an MA in English Literature from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1979, he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature (Persian and English) at the University of Texas at Austin. He continues to publish studies and translations.

Personal life Ghanoonparvar married Diane L. Wilcox, with whom he has translated or co-published – most importantly, "The Fairies" by Ahmad Shamlu (1980). They have two children.

Legacy Ghanoonparvar has received two publications in recognition of his work: Persian Mosaic: Essays on Persian language, Literature and Film in Honor of M.R. Ghanoonparvar (2015)

Awards Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan Classic Tales of Mulla Nasreddin by Houman Farzad (1989) Appointment in Aleppo: The Making of a Suicide Bomber: A Novel by Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi (2018)

Books - Studies Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (1984) In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Contemporary Iranian Fiction (1993) Translating the Garden (2001) Reading Chubak (2005) Iranian Film and Persian Fiction (2016)

Audio - Language Persian for Beginners with Fatemeh Givechian (1988)

Books - Translations The Patient Stone by Sadeq Chubak (1989) Savushun by Simin Daneshvar (1990) Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-polishing Storytellers (1996) The Myth of Creation: A Puppet Show in Three Acts by Sadeq Hedayat (1998) The Tales of Sabalan: Two Short Novels by Mohammad Reza Bayrami (2008) Fortune Told in Blood by Davud Ghaffarzadagan (2008) The Neighbor Says: Nima Yushij and the Philosophy of Modern Persian Poetry by Nima Yushij (2009) Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role by Bahram Beyzai (2010) Horse's Head: A Novel by Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi (2011) Red Olive: One Woman's Account of Survival, Revolution, and War by Nahid Yousefian (2015) Eagles of Hill 60 by Mohammad Reza Bayrami (2016) Book of Jinn: A Novel by Houshang Golshiri (2019) Flight into Darkness: A Political Biography of Shapour Bakhtiar by Hamid Shokat (2019) Blue Logos: A Novel by Shahmush Parsipur (2019) The Last Dream by Ruhangiz Sharifian (2020) Doran: A Novel by Ruhangiz Sharifian (2020) Caught in the Crossfire: A Political Biography of Ahmad Qavam: Prime Minister under the Qajar and Pahlavi Dynasties by Hamid Shokat (2019) In the Alley of a Friend: On the Poetry of Hafez by Shahrokh Meskoob (2021) Leaving, Staying, Returning: A Trilogy by Shahrokh Meskoob (2021) Nights in Tehran: A Novel by Ghazaleh Alizadeh (2021)

Books - Anthologies, Collections Iranian Drama: An Anthology (1989) Satan's Stones by Moniro Ravanipour (1996) Kanizu: Stories (2004)

Books - Cuisine Persian Cuisine I: Traditional Foods (1982) Persian Cuisine II: Regional and Modern Foods (1984) Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods (2006) Dining at the Safavid Court: 16th Century Royal Persian Recipe (2017)

Articles "Jalal Al Ahmad's The Cursing of the Land" (1980)

Encyclopaedia Iranica "Boran" "Bozbash" "Drama"