Gholamhossein Saʿedi

1935 - 1985

Iranian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and scriptwriter.

Gholamhossein Saʿedi, who used the pen name Gowhar Morad, was born in Tabriz and was graduated from the medical school at Tehran University with a specialty in psychiatry. He was the first Iranian who seriously engaged in writing "village literature," representing a village and its population not as a romantic entity but showing its deprived and actual face. One of the most popular Iranian writers of the 1960s and 1970s in Iran, he produced several plays and collections of short stories. Saʿedi left Iran in the late 1970s for Paris, where he died. Much of his work is available in English.

Bibliography

Moayyad, Heshmat, ed. Stories from Iran: A Chicago Anthology,1921 - 1991. Washington, DC: Mage, 1991.

— PARDIS MINUCHEHR