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Houshang Golshiri
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Houshang Golshiri (Persian: هوشنگ گلشیری ; 1937 – June 6, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the 20th century. Golshiri was born in Isfahan in 1937 and raised in Abadan. He came from a large family of modest circumstances. From 1955 to 1974, Golshiri lived in Isfahan, where he completed a bachelor's degree in Persian at the University of Isfahan and taught elementary and high school there and in surrounding towns. Golshiri began writing fiction in the late 1950s. His publication of short stories in Payam-e Novin and elsewhere in the early 1960s, his establishment of Jong-e Isfahan (1965/73), the chief literary journal of the day published outside of Tehran, and his participation in efforts to reduce official censorship of imaginative literature brought him a reputation in literary circles. Golshiri's first collection of short stories was As Always (1968). He became famous for his first novel Prince Ehtejab (1968/69). Translated in Literature East & West 20 (1980), it is the story of aristocratic decadence, implying the inappropriateness of monarchy for Iran. Shortly after the production of the popular feature film based on the novel, Pahlavi authorities arrested Golshiri and incarcerated him for nearly six months. An autobiographical and less successful novel called Christine and Kid came out in 1971,