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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Lived 1903 to 1951 · aged 48