Reza Baraheni (Persian: رضا براهنی; 13 December 1935 – 25 March 2022[1]) was an Iranian[2] novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.

He was the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory, and criticism, written in Persian and English.

[citation needed] His works have been translated into a dozen of languages.

[citation needed] His book, Crowned Cannibals, is accused by a few of containing some fabrications.

[5] Moreover, he translated into Persian works by Shakespeare, Kundera, Mandelstam, Andrić, and Fanon.