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Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian writer · Iran · On the map · Writers · Lived 1903 to 1951 · aged 48

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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Iran
Category
Writers
Type
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1903 to 1951 · aged 48

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