Occupation: Author and Researcher
Occupation: Author and Researcher
Muhammad Qasemzadeh
Muhammad Qasemzadeh, an Iranian author and critic and member of Academy of Persian Language and Literature, was born in Nahavand on July 9, 1955. He finished the preliminary and high school in his own city; however he saw many cities because of his father’s military occupation during his childhood. Ettehad primary school was his first school in Nahavand. Then he enrolled in Arya and Koroush Kabir schools. He won his literary Diploma in 1974 and was accepted in University of Tehran in the same year. He took his undergraduate degree in Persian Literature major from University of Tehran in 1978. He served as literature teacher for nine years, from 1979 to 188, in Qaemshahr, Mazandaran. The University of Tehran one more time became his home for learning more about Persian Literature, this time in MSc. degree in 1985. After graduating from University of Tehran in MSc. degree, he decided to leave education Ministry and joined the Superior Culture and Education Ministry. After a very short while he left Iran for China and cooperated with Beijing’s branch of IRIB and Farsi Department of Beijing Radio. After returning to the homeland, he went to State Scientific Researches Center in 1993 and stayed there by 2004. Then he transferred to the Academy of Persian Language and Literature where he is working in the comparative literature department. Muhammad Qasemzadeh started to research professionally in 1988. As a member of a group, he worked on a project about glossary of biographies whose first volume was published in 1990. He has many works including Siavash, Dancing in Dark, Impossible Dream of Leili Joon, the 8th City, Confidential Diaries of a Family, the Ill-timed Lady, Dancing of Pelican, the endless and The King Rides.
As a whodunit story, the protagonist of Dancing of Pelican, Ahmad, three of his friends commit an armed kidnapping. They kidnap a rich man, Parviz Pazoki. Ahmad kills Pazoki’s driver and it is followed by other occurrences which compose the novel.
The King Rides is a story narrated by a scriber who works for the king. He describes a condition in which the king and his entourage are surrounded by enemies using the ancient Persian prose. When the enemy comes closer and makes the surrounding ring tighter, the king and his relatives including his wives and children escape through the aqueduct.
