Sadegh Hedayat

Sadegh Hedayat was born in Tehran on 17 February 1903 into a family of senior dignitaries, was a pupil at the Collège Saint-Louis and left in 1925, on a scholarship, to study in Belgium and then in France; in 1927 or 1928, he tried to drown himself in the Marne and was saved. Back without a degree in 1930, he moved from one office job to another, led the small Rab'a circle, collected folk tales and beliefs, studied Middle Persian and translated Kafka. Having left for Paris at the end of 1950, he destroyed his unpublished manuscripts there and killed himself with gas on 9 April 1951; he is buried at Père-Lachaise.

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• NovelThe Blind Owlبوف کورSadegh Hedayat · 1936Literature