Sadegh Hedayat

Culture of origin: Iranian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Iran

Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) was a writer, translator and satirist, one of the first Iranian writers to take up literary modernism. In Bombay he learned Middle Persian from a Parsi Zoroastrian scholar and published The Blind Owl, called one of the most important literary works in Persian. He also studied Persian folklore and translated from Middle Persian and French. Overwhelmed by despair, he took his own life in Paris.