Hedayat was educated at Collège Saint-Louis (French catholic school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916). Another one of his sisters was the wife of Abdollah Hedayat who was also an army general. Hedayat's sister married Haj Ali Razmara who was an army general and among the prime ministers of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Tabarestani was a well-respected writer and worked in the government, as did other relatives. Hedayat was born to a northern Iranian aristocratic family in Tehran. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.Įarly life and education Young Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( Persian: صادق هدایت Persian pronunciation: listen ⓘ 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Writer of prose fiction and short stories
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