Sadegh Hedayat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian writer

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1903

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1951

Profession: writer, poet, translator, novelist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sadegh Hedayat (Persian: ???? ?????? Persian pronunciation: ['s??d?q ? h?d??'jæt] listen ; February 17, 1903 in Tehran – April 9, 1951 in Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual.
Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.