M. R. Ghanoonparvar (translator) محمدرضا قانون‌پرور

M. R. GHANOONPARVAR is Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature and Persian Language at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on Persian literature and culture in both English and Persian and is also the author of Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran; In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction; Translating the Garden; Reading Chubak; and Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods. His translations include Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s By the Pen, Sadeq Chubak’s The Patient Stone, Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun, and Sadeq Hedayat’s The Myth of Creation and his edited volumes include Iranian Drama: An Anthology; In Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in Middle Eastern Societies; Gholamhoseyn Sa’edi’s Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers; and Moniru Ravanipur’s Satan Stones and Kanizu.