1903 - N. o escritor e dramaturgo iraniano Sadeq Hedayat, o mais importante autor persa do séc. XX. Os seus contos reflectem uma visão pessimista do mundo e o amor pela herança cultural do seu país. A sua obra mais famosa é The Blind Owl (1937).Morreu tragicamente em Paris em 1951.
"What is love? For the rabble love is a kind of variety, a transient vulgarity; the rabble's conception of love is best found in their obscene ditties, in prostitution and in the foul idioms they use when they are halfway sober, such as "shoving the donkey's foreleg in mud," or "putting dust on the head." My love for her, however, was of a totally different kind. I knew her from ancient times--strange slanted eyes, a narrow, half-open mouth, a subdued quiet voice. She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?"
(The Blind Owl,traduzido por Iraj Bashiri)
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