Amin Faghiri

Amin Faghiri is from Shiraz and was born into a large family. He had a difficult childhood. Pour with the rain is a documentary about him[1] by Ali Zare Ghanat Nowi which is going to be released soon.

His early difficulties led him to write short stories. He had a precise method and style of writing. His stories employed realism and an honest visual style.

His first collection of short stories took four years to write. At the age of 23, he published Primal. The book was published five times before the Iranian revolution. The sixth edition was published in 1382 (2003 CE). In the book, he described the loneliness and boredom of rural teachers. He also told stories of peasant violence and the sociological persecution they faced. Faghiri, alongside Mahoud Dowlat Abadi, was one of the first Iranian rural story writers. The stories in the collection have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including English, German, Russian, Urdu, Italian, French, and Japanese. He has nineteen books in total.

Faghiri won the Golden Tablet for best fiction in 1376 (1997 CE).