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Biography of Sadiq Hidayat
Name: Sadiq Hidayat
Birth Date: February 17, 1903
Death Date: April 9, 1951
Place of Birth: Teheran, Persia
Nationality: Persian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer
Sadiq Hidayat
Sadiq Hidayat (1903-1951) is considered the father of modern Persian fiction. Although his works show a variety of literary forms, he was essentially a short-story writer.Only since the beginning of the 20th century, because of the development of journalism and the influence of the West, has Persian prose been given the same status as poetry. Sadiq Hidayat contributed greatly to this literary revolution.Hidayat was born on Feb. 17, 1903, in Teheran, Persia, to an aristocratic family of great landowners from the northern province of Mazandaran. His ancestors gave Persia (especially in the 19th century) many prominent statesmen and men of letters, and his family played an important role during the constitutional revolution of 1906, in this period of confrontation of the past with the new.Very little is known about Hidayat as an individual, as he preferred to live modestly and in solitude. However, it is known that he cared for the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…of the society which obstructs the education and advancement of the masses. Hidayat is particularly sympathetic toward the position of women, and the women in his stories are symbols of revolt against backwardness.Hidayat's search for the glorious past of Persia led him to India, where he studied with Parsee scholars. But India did not cure him of his melancholy and gloomy pessimism. After returning to Persia, he published new collections of his grimmest short stories, The Stray Dog and The Dead End, which show his belief that man cannot liberate himself from his fate. Hidayat committed suicide in Paris on April 9, 1951. Further Reading Hidayat is considered in two studies that also provide useful background: Hassan Kamshad, Modern Persian Prose Literature (1966), and Jan Rypka, written in collaboration with Otaker Klima and others, History of Iranian Literature (1968).Bashiri, Iraj., The fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, Lexington, Ky., USA: Mazdåa Publishers, 1984.
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