Sadegh Chubak

Sadegh Chubak was born in Bushehr in 1916, the son of a bazaar merchant, grew up in Bushehr and Shiraz, and completed his studies at the American College in Tehran in 1937. A schoolteacher in Khorramshahr, then a translator in the army, he was afterwards, until his retirement, a librarian at the National Iranian Oil Company. Close to Sadegh Hedayat, who encouraged him, he translated plays, tales and poems from English. In retirement, he left Iran for England and then California, and died in Berkeley on 3 July 1998.

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• NovelThe Patient Stoneسنگ صبورSadegh Chubak · 1966Literature