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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian: محمود دولتآبادی, romanized: Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi; born August 1, 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience.
Jul 1, 2012 · After being arrested in 1974 by the Savak, the shah’s secret police, the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi asked his interrogators just what crime he had committed.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi has 78 books on Goodreads with 59556 ratings. Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s most popular book is جای خالی سلوچ.
Apr 17, 2023 · Here, she spends her days with her father Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary Iranian novelists. He is a man who has lived through poverty, imprisonment, revolution, war...
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Kelidar (Persian: کلیدر) is a novel written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in Persian. The novel consists of 10 books in 5 volumes. The book was written in 15 years, and includes Iranian folkloric themes. Kelidar has been translated into different languages.
Apr 2, 2008 · Published during revolutionary times in Iran in 1979, Missing Soluch is a 500-page tribute to the socialist ideas that so enthused the Iranian intellectuals and writers of that period. Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who comes from a village in the north-eastern province of Khorasan, has worked in agriculture, as a craftsman, and in theater in ...
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is one of the Middle East’s most important writers. Born in 1940 in a remote farming region of Iran, the son of a shoemaker, he spent his early life and teens as an agricultural day labourer until he made his way to Tehran, where he began writing plays, stories and novels.
