User:Homakhanum/Hossein Atashparvar



 [ حسین آتش پرور]  Hossein Atashparvar was born in Disfan (Gonabad), Khorasan Province, on Nov. 11th, 1952. He is an Iranian writer and a literary critic. He belongs to the Third Generation of Iranian writers. He is  the fiction editor of  the international literary magazine Neweshta.

He was one of the speakers at the National Khayyam Congress, held  on May 18th, 2014. He is one of the Juries at the Mehregan Adab.[ مهرگان ادب]

By creative employment of Gonabad's folklore, such as dialect, culture, traditions, ceremonies, and myths   in his short story collections  "Mahi dar bad" (Fish in the wind), "Anduh" (sarrow), as well as in his novel "Khiyaban-e Bahar abi bud" (Bahar avenue was blue), the author presents a portrait of the people living in this region to the Iraninan literature. To honor Atashparvar's contribution and to employ his expertise, the Gonabad's literature association has been renamed to "Hossein Atashparvar's House of fiction".