# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bozorg-alavi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:12:23.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bozorg-alavi"
name: "Bozorg Alavi"
slug: "bozorg-alavi"
description: "Bozorg Alavi was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in East Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. Cheshm'hā'yash, which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned, is considered his finest novel. Alavi was also a very close friend of Iran's famous writer Sadegh Hedayat; these two created a literary group\nwhen they were residing in Paris called \"sab'e group\". Although Her Eyes is considered his masterpiece, Alavi also wrote many other books, such as the novel \"Chamedan\" (suitcase) which was written under the influence of Freudian psychology. His other novels \"Mirza\", \"Fifty Three Persons\" and \"Gilemard\" are mentioned in Iranian high-school textbooks. He did return to Tehran after the revolution but did not stay too long and decided to head back to Germany. Bozorg Alavi's contribution to Iranian Literature is profound due to the modernization movement in which he was a key member."
tagline: "Writer, novelist and activist (1904-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bozorg_Alavi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-02-02"
deathDate: "1997-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump