This Iranian writer, author of the novel ‘The Blind Owl’ and an admirer of Kafka, took his own life in a Paris apartment in 1951. Who is he?
The answer
Born in Tehran in 1903, Sadegh Hedayat settled in Paris, where he took his own life by gas asphyxiation in April 1951. Regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Persian literature, he rests at Père-Lachaise.
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