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Jun 28, 1929 Najaf, Najaf Governorate, Iraq Died on 22 Jan 2016 (aged 86)
Iranian writer and translator
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About Abolhassan Najafi
- Abolhassan Najafi (Persian: ???????? ?????) (28 June 1929 – 22 January 2016) was an Iranian writer and translator. Najafi was born in Najaf, Iraq, into a family from Isfahan.
- He began his literary activities in 1960s and translated several books from French into Persian.
- He co-published a successful literary periodical entitled Jong-e Isfahan (Persian: ???? ???????).
- After the Iranian revolution, he published a controversial book on Persian usage entitled Let's Avoid Mistakes (??? ???????). Najafi published over twenty books, among these a dictionary on Persian slang, elements of general linguistics and its application to the Persian language.
- He translated French novels to Persian, notable works from Jean-Paul Sartre (Le Diable et le bon Dieu, Les sequestres d'Altona, Qu'est-ce que la litérature), André Malraux (Antimémoire), Albert Camus (Caligula), Roger Martin du Gard (Les Thibault), Claude Lévi-Strauss (La race et l'histoire), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince).Najafi was a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1990–2016).
