Iranian thinker
Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh HedayatFiction writing, translation, and literary intellectualismIranian
There are wounds in life that, like a leprosy, slowly gnaw and consume the soul in solitude.
Life and Thought
Sadegh Hedayat was a prominent Iranian fiction writer, translator, and intellectual, regarded alongside Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh and Bozorg Alavi as one of the pioneers of modern Iranian fiction. His novella, *The Blind Owl*, is considered the most important and best-known work of modern Persian fiction worldwide.
