Reza Barahani

Reza Baraheni (Persian: رضا براهنی‎; born 1935 in Tabriz, Iran), is an Iranian,[1] an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic, and political activist. Former president of PEN Canada, Baraheni lives in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory and criticism, written in Persian and English.[citation needed]