BEHAZIN (Maḥmud Eʿtemādzāda, better known as Behāḏin, b. Rašt, 14 January 1915; d. Tehran, 31 May 2006; FIGURE 1), noted…

BAHMANBEYGI, MOHAMMAD (Moḥammad Bahmanbeygi, b.  Čāh-kāẓemeh, near Firuzābād of Fārs, 26 Bahman 1300 Š./15 February 1922; d. Shiraz, 11 Ordibehešt…

MANSURI, ZABIH-ALLAH (ذبیح الله منصوری, Ẓabiḥ-Allāh Ḥakim-Elāhi Dašti, b. Sanandaj; d. Tehran, 8 June 1986), prolific, and arguably the most…

MASʿUD, Mohammad (Moḥammad Masʿud, b. Qom 1901; d. Tehran, 11 February 1948) novelist and editor of the controversial and highly…

MARD-e EMRUZ (Man of today), a controversial and highly popular newspaper published weekly in Tehran, with frequent interruptions, from 19…

MOSTA’AN, Hosayn-Qoli (Ḥosayn-Qoli Mostaʿān, b. Tehran, 1904; d. Tehran, March 5, 1983), noted serial writer, journalist, and translator. His father,…

MOSHFEQ-e KAZEMI, Sayyed Morteza (Sayyed Mortażā Mošfeq-e Kāẓemi, b. Tehran, 1904; d. Paris 1978), author of Iran’s first social novel….

ḴALILI, ʿABBĀS, political activist, journalist, translator, poet, and novelist (b. Najaf, 1895; d. Tehran, 1971; Figure 1). LIFE  Ḵalili was…

FAZEL, Javad (Moḥammad-Javād Fāżel Lārijāni; b. Lārijān, 1914; d. Tehran, 19 August 1961), noted serial writer, and a pioneering figure…

GOLŠIRI, Hušang (b. Isfahan, March 16, 1938; d. Tehran, June 5, 2000; Figure 1), one of the most significant Persian…

ALIZADEH, Ghazaleh (Ḡazāla ʿAlizāda, registered as Fāṭema ʿAlizāda Harāti; b. Mashad, 17 February 1947; d. Javāherdeh, Rāmsar, 8 April 1996),…

MASRUR, Hosayn (pen name of Ḥosayn Soḵanyār; b. Kupā, a village in southeast of the Isfahan Province, 1890; d. Tehran,…

ALAVI, BOZORG (Bozorg ʿAlavi, b. Tehran, 13 Bahman 1282 Š./2 February 1904; d. Berlin, 28 Bahman 1375 Š./17 February 1997;…