Sadegh Hedayat

Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایت‎‎ About this sound listen (help·info); February 17, 1903, Tehran - April 9, 1951, Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. He is one of the earliest Iranian writers who adopted literary modernism in their career. Life[edit] Hedayat was born to a northern Iranian aristocratic family in Tehran (his great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat was himself a well respected writer and worked in the government