Hormoz Homayounpour, translator, journalist, and Parham’s brother-in-law, told ISNA that Parham died at his home this evening (Monday, September 14) due to old age.
According to Homayounpour, the date for Parham’s funeral and burial has not yet been determined.
Born on January 23, 1929, in Shiraz, Sirus Parham was a translator, editor, literary critic, art historian, carpet expert, and one of the founders of the National Archives of Iran. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1951 from the University of Tehran and his Ph.D. in political science in 1954 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was among the first in Iran to introduce Western methods of literary criticism and was also one of the country’s earliest professional editors, serving as the first editor at Franklin Publications (today Scientific and Cultural Publications).
Parham’s works include Realism and Anti-Realism in Literature, Books That Changed the World (editor), Nomadic and Rural Rugs of Fars (with Siavash Azadi), Masterpieces of Fars Carpet Weaving, Selected Poems of Walt Whitman, and O You Who Now Hold Me in Your Hands.
