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Sadegh Hedayat

1903 - 1951

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Sadegh Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایت, Persian pronunciation: [ˈsɑːdɛq-ɛ hɛdɑːˈjæt] ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sadegh Hedayat is the 1,461st most popular writer (down from 1,315th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Iran (down from 168th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 1,461 out of 7,302. Before him are J. G. Ballard, Evelyn Waugh, Viktor Suvorov, Lee Child, Naim Frashëri, and Marcus Garvey. After him are César Vallejo, Phrynichus, Ernst Hanfstaengl, J. Michael Straczynski, Albert of Aix, and Vasily Shukshin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 81. Before him are Johannes Heesters, Waldemar Hoven, Werner Best, Erskine Caldwell, Charles W. Morris, and Evelyn Waugh. After him are Prince Nicholas of Romania, Lou Gehrig, Mikhail Kalatozov, Alice Herz-Sommer, Heinz Reinefarth, and Fritz Bauer. Among people deceased in 1951, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 44. Before him are Willem Mengelberg, Empress Teimei, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Nikolai Medtner, Ernst von Weizsäcker, and Serge Koussevitzky. After him are Artur Schnabel, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Robert Grant Aitken, Reggie Walker, Erich Naumann, and Agrippina Vaganova.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 178 out of 631. Before him are Sultan Husayn (1668), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Apama (-400), and Harpagus (-700). After him are Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Shaykh Tusi (995), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), and Timur Shah Durrani (1748).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Sadegh Hedayat ranks 18. Before him are Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), and Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543). After him are Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Baba Tahir (947), Azar Nafisi (1955), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), and Asadi Tusi (999).

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