Gholam-Hossein Saedi
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Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, MD (Persian: غلامحسین ساعدی) (January 4, 1936 — November 23, 1985),[1] alias Gohar Morād [2] (گوهر مراد), was an Iranian socialist novelist and playwright best known for the screenplay of the celebrated Iranian movie Gāv (The Cow). He was one of the first modern playwrights and short-story writers of Iran.
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[edit] Life
Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi was born in Tabriz. He became involved in political activities very early in life (at the age of 16), when he began working as a journalist in the socialist newspapers published in Iran's Azarbaijan province. He was arrested for a short period of time during the coup d'état of 19 August 1953. In 1963 he graduated from University of Tabriz in medicine. In 1966 he began his writing career with short stories and plays which before long were being staged in some theatres of Tehran. Years later, he wrote two screenplays for two distinguished film directors, Dariush Mehrjui and Nasser Taghvaee, namely that of Gāv, 1969, and of Tranquility in the Presence of Others, 1973, respectively.[3]
In 1974 Sā'edi was arrested by the Pahlavi régime for his political activities. After one year of confinement in prison he was released, however he had to be admitted to a hospital upon release. In 1975 he wrote the screenplay for Dariush Mehrjui's Dāyereh-ye Minā (aka The Cycle), 1975, which was released in 1978.
[edit] Notes
- ^ 13 Day 1314 — 2 Azar 1364 AH.
- ^ According to Abdol-Ali Dast'gheyb (literary critic), Gohar Morād is the name of one of the mystic works by Hazin Lāhiji. In an interview Sā'edi has however mentioned that he had seen the name Gohar Marād on the gravestone of a woman, died untimely, in a disused cemetery in the backyard of their home in Tabriz. It was on this occasion that he had decided to use Gohar Morād as his pen-name.
- ^ The story underlying Gāv is the story number four in Sā'edi's book Azā'dārān-e Bayal (عزاداران بَیَل — The Mourners of Bayal) which consists of eight short related stories. See: Azā'dārān-e Bayal, 1st edition, 245 p. (Enteshārāt-e Níl [Níl Press], Tehran, 1965). Azā'dārān-e Bayal, 6th edition, 259 p. (Nashr-e Ghatreh [Ghatreh Publications], Tehran, 1998). ISBN 964595892X
[edit] Further reading
- Five transcripts (by Shahin Basseri) of interviews with Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, by Zia Sadeghi in Paris, France, between 5 April and 7 June 1984, Iranian Oral History Collection, Harvard University, [1].
- Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, Tape 1:
- Subjects: (1) (Prince) Abdorreza Pahlavi, (2) Jalal Ale-Ahmad, (3) Azarbaijan Crisis of 1946, (4) Samad Behrangi, (5) Cabinet of Mohammad Mossadegh, (6) Coup d'état of August 1953 (25-28th Mordad 1332), (7) Ashraf Dehghani, (8), Behrouz Dehghani, (8) Democratic Party of Azarbaijan, (9) General Abbas Gharabaghi, (10) Parviz Natel-Khanlari, (11) Jafar Pishevari, (12) SAVAK, (13) Tudeh Party, (14) White Revolution.
- Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, Tape 2:
- Subjects: (1) Iraj Afshar, (2) Jalal Ale-Ahmad, (3) Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, (4) Sazman Cherik-ha-ye Fadaii-e Khalgh-e Iran, (5) Simin Daneshvar, (6) Amir-Abbas Hoveida, as Prime Minister, (7) Bijan Jazani, (8) Sazman Mojahedin-e Khalgh, (9) Ehsan Naraghi, (10) Parviz Nikkhah, (11) Amir-Parviz Pouyan, (12) Censorship of the Press, (13) Rastakhiz Party, (14) Causes of the Revolution of 1979, (15) Events preceding the Revolution of 1979, (16) Revolution of 1979, (17) SAVAK, (18) Torture by the SAVAK, (19) Shab-e Sher, (20) Shiraz Art Festival, (21) Mostafā Shoaeyan, (22) Siyah-kal, (23) Twenty-Fifth Century Celebrations, (24) Writers' Council, (25) Gholam-Hossein Saedi.
[edit] External links
- Gholamhossein Sā'edi, Persian Language & Literature, Iran Chamber Society.
- Dr Gholamhossein Sā'edi, a Biography, in Persian, Persian Cultures.
- Dr Mostafā Osku'i, Azā'dāry-e Gohar Morād barāy-e Ahāliy-e Bayal (Mourning of Gohar Morād [Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi] for the Inhabitants of Bayal), in Persian, Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, Beh'namā.
- Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi-ology: Revisiting Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, his life, works and times, in Persian, [2].
- Lādan Pārsi, Twenty years have passed since Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi died, 23 Nowember 2005, BBC Persian.
- Jamshid Barzegar, interview with Javad Mojabi (poet, writer and literary critic): BBC Persian (listen).
- Amir-Hasan Chehel'tan (writer), The tragedy of being Sā'edi, a writer who did not appreciate his genius, 23 November 2005, in Persian, BBC Persian.
- Behruz Sheydā, Looking at the stories by Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, in Persian, Māni-hā.
- Khosro Sādeghi Brugeny, Āzar 2, the twenty-second anniversary of Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi's death, in Persian, 23 November 2007, Āftāb.
- Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, a Biography (containing a chronological table), in Persian, Roshd.
- Ahmad Shamlou's observation of Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, in Persian, 28 December 2006, The Literary Society of Shafighi.
- Mohammad Jalāli Chimeh, aka M. Sahar, talks about Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, 59 min, Google (watch).
- Nasim Khāksār, talks about Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, SOAS, 22 January 2006, 28 min, Google (watch).
- Shādāb Vajdi, talks about Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, SOAS, 22 January 2006, 10 min, Google (watch).
- Gedā (Beggar), by Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi, in Persian, Sokhan.
[edit] See also
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