Ahmad Kamyabi Mask

Ahmad Kamyabi Mask (Persian: احمد کامیابی مَسْک; born 1944) is a writer, translator, publisher, and current Professor Emeritus of Modern Drama and Theater of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran.

[1] He is a prominent scholar of French Avant-garde theater and influential in the study of Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

[11] Kamyabi Mask received the 1991 award of the Association of French Language Writers for his book Qui sont les rhinocéros de Monsieur Bérenger-Eugène Ionesco?.

In 2011, he was named Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms for distinguished contribution to French literature and culture.

[12] Ahmad Kamyabi Mask is an eminent critic of Martin Esslin for the colonialist quality of the latter's critique on French Avant-garde theater.