Parviz Natel-Khanlari

• Name — Parviz Natel-Khanlari • Born — 20 March 1914 • Birthplace — Tehran, Qajar Iran • Died — 23 August 1990 • Place of death — Tehran, Iran • Resting Place — Behesht-e Zahra • Order1 — Minister of Culture • Term Start1 — 1 August 1962 • Term End1 — 7 March 1964 • Prime Minister1 — Asadollah Alam • Predecessor1 — Mohammad Derakhshesh • Successor1 — Abdullali Jahanshahi • Office2 — Senator from Mazandaran • Term Start2 — 11 March 1964 • Term End2 — 11 February 1979 • Appointer2 — Mohammad Reza Pahlavi • Party — Independent • Alma Mater — St. Louis School Tehran American School Dar ul-Funun Supreme University University of Tehran • Spouse — Zahra Kia • Children — 2

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from the University of Tehran in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics at the University of Paris for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in the University of Tehran. Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in Iran from the 1960s through the late 1970s. Parviz Natel Khanlari was the founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.

Parviz Natel-Khanlari is recorded as linguist, literary historian, translator, writer and poet.