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M. R. Ghanoonparvar
M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Ghanoonparvar has also taught at the University of Isfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona, and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan. He was the recipient of the 2008 Lois Roth Prize for Literary Translation and is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Teachers of Persian (2021). He is also the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Encyclopædia Iranica (2009) for his contributions to presenting Persian culinary arts to the non-Iranian public. He has published widely on Persian literature and culture in both English and Persian and is the author of: Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (1984), In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (1993), Translating the Garden (2001), Reading Chubak (2005), Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods (2006), Iranian Film and Persian Fiction (2016), Dining at the Safavid Court (2016), From Prophets of Doom to Chroniclers of Gloom (2021), and Iranian Cities in Persian Fiction (2022). His most recent translations include Shahrokh Meskub’s In the Alley of the Friend and Leaving, Staying, Returning, Hushang Golshiri’s Book of Jinn, Moniro Ravanipour’s The Drowned and These Crazy Nights, Ghazaleh Alizadeh’s The Nights of Tehran, Two Views and Trial, and The House of the Edrisis, Ruhangiz Sharifian’s The Last Dream and Doran, Shahrnush Parsipur’s Blue Logos, Hossein Atashparvar’s From the Moon to the Well, Ahmad Kasravi’s Superstitions, Reza Julai’s Jujube Blossoms, and Sadeq Hedayat’s Neyrangestan. His most recent book is Disease, Dying, Death, and Trauma in Persian Stories.
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