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Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. He is widely considered to be the father of the atheist movement in Iran.
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Born 17 February 1903 · Died 4 April 1951 · Q315017
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“Sometimes the humiliation of Iranian youth is implied or suggested in the books. Sometimes the media transmits the concept that we Muslims and easterners lack proper means and, therefore, we should stretch our hands towards others.”
Mohsen Shahrnazdar and Sam Kalantari made a documentary film about Sadegh Hedayat named From No
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Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai has made a docudrama about Hedayat entitled Goftogu ba saye = Talking with a shadow
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Raul Ruiz made the feature film La Chouette aveugle in France: a loose adaption of Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl
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Died 1951-04-04.
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Overwhelmed by despair, Hedayat left Tehrān and traveled to Paris, where he rented an apartment
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A literary criticism on the Persian translation of Gogol's The Government Inspector 1944
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Buried Alive (Zende be gūr) A collection of 9 short stories
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Hedayat attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Marne but was rescued by a fishing boat
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Was among a select few students who traveled to Europe to continue their studies
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And continued his studies at Collège Saint-Louis, a French Catholic school
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Started his secondary education at Dar ol-Fonoon, where he published a wall newspaper titled Nedaye Amvat (The Call of the Dead)
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Born 1903-02-17.
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