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(1939-2007) dramatist, short story writer, university lecturer, and an influential figure in popularizing theatre as an art in modern Iran, whose incorporation of colloquial Persian in his works, has contributed to the preservation of the dialects of the northern provinces. RADI, AKBAR (Akbar Rādi, b. Rasht, 31 October 1939; d. Tehran, 26 December 2007; Figure 1), dramatist, short story writer, and university lecturer. Radi was born to a middle class family and was raised in the city of Rasht, where he lived the first eleven years of his life until his fath…