Gholam-Hossein Saedi

Gholam-Hossein Saedi was born in Tabriz in January 1936 into a middle-class family. As a teenager he was active in the youth organisation of the Azerbaijan Democrats and was arrested for the first time in 1953. A medical graduate of Tabriz in 1961, he specialised in psychiatry in Tehran and treated the poor of the south of the city for almost nothing. He signed his plays Gohar Morad, was arrested by the political police in 1974 and released in 1975, went into exile in Paris in early 1981 and died there on 23 November 1985; he lies in Père-Lachaise, near Sadegh Hedayat.

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• Short storiesFear and Tremblingترس و لرزGholam-Hossein Saedi · 1968Literature