April 11- Death of Sadegh Hedaiat

22 Farvardin,  Baad = Wind Day

1951: Sadegh Hedaiat the famous writer, Suicide
some believes he has been killed by Islamic Extremist

Sadegh (or Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت; February 17, 1903, Tehran�11 April 1951, Paris) is Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. He was born to an aristocratic family and was educated at the Lyc�e Fran�ais (French high school) in that city. In 1925 he was among a select few students who travelled to Europe to continue their studies. There he initially pursued dentistry before giving this up for engineering. After four years in France and Belgium, Hedayat returned to Iran where he held various jobs for short periods.

Hedayat subsequently devoted his whole life to studying Western literature and to learning and investigating Iranian history and folklore. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka intrigued him the most. During his short literary life span, Hedayat published a substantial number of short stories and novelettes, two historical dramas, a play, a travelogue, and a collection of satirical parodies and sketches. His writings also include numerous literary criticisms, studies in Persian folklore, and many translations from Middle Persian and French. He is credited with having brought Persian language and literature into the mainstream of international contemporary writing.

In his latter years, feeling the socio-political problems of the time, Hedayat started attacking the two major causes of Iran�s decimation, the monarchy and the clergy, and through his stories he tried to impute the deafness and blindness of the nation to the abuses of these two major powers. Feeling alienated by everyone around him, specially his peers, Hedayat�s last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation and a sense of doom experienced only by those subjected to discrimination and repression.

Hedayat's most enduring work is the short novel The Blind Owl (1937).

He ended his life by gassing himself, and is buried in the P�re Lachaise.

Works

• Fiction
  • 1930 Zindeh be-gur (Buried Alive). A collection of 8 short stories.
  • 1931 Sayeh-ye Mughul (Mongol Shadow)
  • 1932 Seh qatreh khun (Three Drops of Blood)
  • 1933 Sayeh Rushan (Chiaroscuro)
    Alaviyeh Khanum (Madame `Alaviyeh)
    Vagh Vagh Sahab (Mister Bow Wow)
  • 1937 Buf-e Kur (The Blind Owl)
  • 1942 Sag-e Velgard (The Stray Dog)
  • 1944 Velengari (Tittle-tattle)
    Ab-e Zendegi (The Elixir of Life)
  • 1945 Haji Aqa (Mr. Haji)
  • 1946 Farda (Tomorrow)
  • 1947 Tup-e Murvari (The Pearl Cannon)

• Drama (1930-1946)
  • Parvin dokhtar-e Sasan (Parvin, Sassan's Daughter)
  • Maziyar
  • Afsaneh-ye Afarinesh (The Fable of Creation)

• Travelogues
  • Esfahan nesf-e Jahan (Isfahan: Half the World)
  • Ru-ye Jadeh-ye Namnak (On the Wet Road), unpublished, written in 1935.

• Studies, Criticism and Miscellanea
  • Rubaiyat-e Hakim Umar-e Khayyam (Khayyam's Quatrains) 1923
  • Ensan va Hayvan (Man and Animal) 1924
  • Marg (Death) 1927
  • Favayed-e Giyahkhari (The Advantages of Vegetarianism) 1957
  • Hekayat-e Ba Natijeh (The Story with a Moral) 1932
  • Taranehha-ye Khayyam (The Melodies of Khayyam) 1934
  • Chaykuvski (Tchaikovsky) 1940
  • Dar Piramun-e Lughat-e Furs-e Asadi (About Asadi's Persian Dictionary) 1940
  • Shiveh-ye Novin dar Tahqiq-e Adabi (A New Method of Literary Research) 1940
  • Dastan-e Naz (The Story of Naz) 1941
  • Shivehha-ye Novin Dar She'r-e Parsi (New Trends in Persian Poetry) 1941
  • A Review of the Film "Mulla Nasru'd Din" 1944
  • A Literary Criticism on the Persian Translation of Gogol's The Government Inspector 1944
  • Chand Nukteh Dar Bar-ye Vis va Ramin (Some Notes on Vis and Ramin) 1945
  • Payam-e Kafka (The Message of Kafka) 1948
  • al-Be`thatu-Islamiya Ellal-Belad'l Afranjiya (An Islamic Mission in the European Lands), undated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadegh_Hedayat

http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1. x=28&I1.y=12&GD=11&GM=4

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Born on April 11

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1925    Ethel Kennedy, wife of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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1941    Ellen Goodman, Pultizer Prize-winning columnist.
1950    Bill Irwin, actor and choreographer.

http://www.historynet.com/tih/tih0411/

Edited by Dark Age

It's Mohammed's birthday just earlier. I'm pretty sure it's a pagan
celebration but it's still very, very huge event in rural Bosnia.

EDIT: Yeah, wrong thread. I'll leave this here to embarrass
myself.

Edited by Mila

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