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Parvin Salajegheh
Parvin Salajegheh is a writer, poet, critic, researcher, and Associate Professor of Persian literature at the Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. Her research focuses on literary theory and criticism, with particular attention to fiction, poetry, and classical as well as modern literary texts.
She is the author of eleven published books in the fields of literary criticism, fiction, poetry, and research, with several additional works currently in press. In addition, she has published more than forty scholarly articles on literary theory and criticism in peer-reviewed journals. Her works have earned numerous national awards, including the Outstanding Iranian Critic Award in Classical and Contemporary Poetry from the Foundation of Artists and Writers for her book Amirzadeh-ye Kashiha (The Prince of Tiles), a critical study of Ahmad Shamlu’s poetry; the Book of the Year Award for Az In Bagh-e Sharqi (From This Eastern Garden); and the Environmental Literature Book of the Year Award from the Department of Environment for her work The Story of the Wetland. Az In Bagh-e Sharqi has been adopted by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology as a required core text for university courses, while several of her other works have been introduced as reference and supplementary readings in both formal and informal educational settings.
Beyond her published scholarship, Salajegheh regularly delivers lectures and conducts workshops on textual analysis, literary criticism, creative writing, and the theories and elements of poetry at universities and academic institutions, as well as in independent literary academies and community-based programs.
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Prologue Traveling from Tehran to Kerman, as one approaches the province, the desert landscape becomes increasingly expansive, the villages more…
