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Bozorg Alavi

1904 - 1997

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Bozorg Alavi (Persian: بزرگ علوی; February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in East Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. Cheshm'hā'yash (Her Eyes), which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned, is considered his finest novel. Alavi was also a very close friend of Iran's famous writer Sadegh Hedayat; these two created a literary group when they were residing in Paris called "sab'e group". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bozorg Alavi is the 4,291st most popular writer (down from 4,065th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Iran (down from 356th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bozorg Alavi ranks 4,291 out of 7,302. Before him are Julius Zeyer, Anna Haava, Qurratulain Hyder, Graham Swift, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Philippe Hériat. After him are Dai Sijie, Malika Oufkir, Herbert W. Franke, Petrus Borel, Pamela Colman Smith, and Gerardo Diego.

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Among people born in 1904, Bozorg Alavi ranks 219. Before him are Gavriil Popov, Richard Addinsell, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Alexander Gerschenkron, Fernando Lopez, and Cecil Day-Lewis. After him are Alger Hiss, Valentín González, Bill Brandt, Abraham Alikhanov, Giuliano Bonfante, and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein. Among people deceased in 1997, Bozorg Alavi ranks 196. Before him are Pedro Zaballa, Tony Williams, Chris Farley, James Krüss, Léon Poliakov, and Natallia Arsiennieva. After him are Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Corneliu Baba, Arthur Machado, Kathy Acker, Luigi Cantone, and Juzo Itami.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bozorg Alavi ranks 360 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961), Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (1964), Cassandra Clare (1973), and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958). After him are Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (1935), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad Mirmohammadi (1948), and Zahra Rahnavard (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Bozorg Alavi ranks 50. Before him are Simin Behbahani (1927), Ibn Bibi (1250), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Iraj Mirza (1874), Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (1001), and Cassandra Clare (1973). After him are Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Hushang Ebtehaj (1928), Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939).

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