Gholam-Reza Sabri-Tabrizi was born in Tabriz,(IRAN) , and graduated in Persian and English languages from Tabriz university in 1958. In 1969 he completed a Ph.D. on the work of William Blake at the university of Edinburgh, where he taught for 30 years. The author of the ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ of William Blake, he is a popular and respected academic who has presented papers to international conferences in the USA, Russia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Libya, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Italy, Taiwan, Malaysia and Germany. Since 1997 Professor Sabri-Tabrizi has been teaching English literature in the universities of Azerbaijan. He is elected as vice president of the Coordinating Committee of World Azerbaijanis in Baku. In his book: IRAN: A CHILD’S STORY, A MAN’S EXPERIENCE, the child is holding history’s hand and walking through the streets of Tabriz. This book is a remarkable autobiographical account of life in Iran from the 1930s to the Revolution of 1979, which the author witnessed in the streets of Tehran and Tabriz. Rich, colourful and as intricately woven as any Persian carpet, this book guides the reader through the social, cultural and political history of a nation in torment. Through the author’s childhood memories and impressions the reader passes beyond the closed doors of ordinary Iranian family life to meet the women in their houses, in the bazaars, in the bath-houses and at their weddings. We see the children at their schools and at work in the carpet factories. We meet the men at prayer and at play. Through the writer’s eyes we come to understand the country’s political and religious tensions and their historical roots. The book “ IRAN: A CHILD’S STORY,A MAN’S EXPERIENCE is a highly unique and moving book which will both enlighten and intrigue.
The Azerbaijani reader got acquainted with Sabri-Tabrizi through such his books as; “Вятян щясряти”, “Фикир дальалары”, “Мяним ики дцнйам”, “Сюнмяз оъаэ’’, “Цмид чыраьы”, “Сечилмиш шеирляр”.
He appeals to the themes of longing for motherland, the suffering on the foreign land, the suffering on the problems of the Azerbaijan divided into two parts, to the problem of Karabakh occupied by Armenia and to the socio-psychological problems of the society.