Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. He was born on February 17, 1903 in Tehran, Iran. Writing during a time of intense cultural transition in the early twentieth century, Hedayat injected a raw, Kafkaesque existentialism into the heart of Iranian fiction. His stories are psychological autopsies, masterfully uncovering the deep alienation of the human condition, the blurring lines between nightmare and reality, and a profound disillusionment with the modern world. He died by suicide on April 9, 1951, in Paris, France. He was 48 years old at the time of his death.

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