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Sadegh Hedayat  |  صادق هدایت

Legal name:   صادق هدایت

Transliterated name:  Hedayat, Sadegh

Birth place:  Tehran, Iran

Birth date:  17 February 1903

Death date:  9 April 1951

Language:  Persian

Bibliographic comments:  English variants of the transliterated name include Sadeq Hedayat, Ṣādiq Hidāyat.

Biographic comments:

Collections

The Blind Owl and Other Stories

2017

Library edition: October 2011 edition, 1st printing

Calder Publications / Alma Books

ISBN 978-0-714-54458-8

Trade paperback

£

Notes:

  •  'The Blind Owl' translated by D. P. Costello, others by Deborah Miller Mostaghel.

Fiction: The Blind Owl  //  Hajji Morad  //  Three Drops of Blood  //  The Legalizer  //  Whirlpool  //  Fire-Worshipper  //  

Abji Khanom  //  The Stray Dog  //  The Broken Mirror  //  Davoud the Hunchback  //  Madeleine  //  Dash Akol  //  The

Man Who Killed His Passions  //  Buried Alive

Short fiction chapbooks

The Blind Owl

1936

Library edition:  October 2011, 1st edition, 1st printing

Iran Open Publishing Group

ISBN 978-91-86131-44-9

Trade paperback, 78 pages

£5.99

Notes:

  •  Translated and with a Preface by Naveed Noori.

  •  75th Anniversary edition, also the first translation into English direct from the first handwritten 'Bombay edition'.

The Blind Owl

1936

Library edition: 2013 edition

Iraj Bashiri

No ISBN

PDF, 104 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Translated and with an Introduction by Iraj Bashiri.

  •  Updated twice (1984, 2013) from Bashiri's original 1974 translation.

Blind Owl

1936

Library edition: 2022 edition, 1st printing

Penguin Books

ISBN 978-0-14-313658-3

Trade paperback, xvii+87 pages

$14.00

Notes:

  •  Translated and with an Introduction by Sassan Tabatabai.

The Blind Owl

1936

<  July 2008 edition

Oneworld

ISBN 978-18-47490-69-8

Trade paperback, 108 pages

£11.50

Notes:

  •  Translated and with an Introduction by D. P. Costello.