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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language - Persian : صادق هدایت; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_17" title="February 17 - February 17 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903" title="1903 - 1903 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran - Tehran — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9" title="April 9 - 11 April http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951" title="1951 - 1951 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris - Paris ) is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran - Iran 's foremost modern writer of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose" title="Prose - prose fiction and short stories. He was born to an aristocratic family and was educated at the Lycée Français (French high school) in that city. In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925" title="1925 - 1925 he was among a select few students who travelled to Europe to continue their studies. There he initially pursued http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentistry" title="Dentistry - dentistry before giving this up for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering - engineering . After four years in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France - France and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant" title="Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" title="Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Persian" title="Middle Persian - Middle Persian and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Owl" title="The Blind Owl - The Blind Owl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937" title="1937 - 1937 ).
He ended his life by gassing himself, and is buried in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise" title="Père Lachaise - Père 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buf-e_Kur&action=edit" class="new" title="Buf-e Kur - Buf-e Kur ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Owl" title="The Blind Owl - 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogol" title="Gogol - 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadegh_Hedayat http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1.x=28&I1.y=12&GD=11&GM=4 - http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1. x=28&I1.y=12&GD=11&GM=4
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