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Organised byIran Heritage Foundation in collaboration with British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS). IntroductionSadeg Hedayat was born in February 1903 in Tehran and committed suicide in Paris in 1951. He is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as amongst some of the best written in 20th century Iran. But his most original contribution was the use of modernist, more often surrealist, techniques in Persian fiction. Thus, he was not only a great writer, but also the founder of modernism in Persian fiction as well. Hedayat’s life and his death have come to symbolise much more than leading writers would normally claim. His personality and psychological moods, his intellectual flare, his cultural values, his social rebelliousness towards virtually every established order in society including that of the opposition, and, ultimately, his sense of alienation from existence itself, placed him in a unique position among modern Iranian intellectuals. In his lecture Dr. Homa Katouzian will provide an analysis of Hedayat’s life and work. The lecture is then followed by the film "From No. 37" by Sam Kalantari and Mohsen Shahrnazdar which looks at the life of Hedayat from his childhood in Iran to his suicide in Paris, in the form of dialogues by presenting documents and photos. The lecture and screening co-insides with the launch of 'Sadeg Hedayat: His Work and his Wondrous World’ edited by Dr. Homa Katouzian and published by Routledge in the series Iranian Studies. About the LecturerDr Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Educated in England, he has taught, as visitor or permanent staff, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and the University of Leeds, Kent at Canterbury, Shiraz, UCLA, UC San Diego and McMaster University. He is editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and joint editor of the ISIS-Rutledge series in Iranian Studies. His current research interest is in Iranian history and politics, the comparative sociology of Iranian and European history, and modern and classical Persian literature. He has published extensively on all above subjects.About the DirectorsSam Kalantari graduated as a Construction Engineer. He went to Dublin, Ireland where he studied Cinema. He has been active as a Project Executive, a Producer and a Director and has been successful in local and international festivals. He has directed several campaigning films, planned features and TV series and directed more than ten documentaries and short films.Mohsen Shahrnazdar is a Journalist and a Music Researcher. He has done research in the field of Iranian tribal music and also Iranian Contemporary Intellectuals. Since 1995 he has written critiques on music in various publications and is among the first serious critics of music in the 1990s with publications in this field. He is also active in the documentary domain in the field of contemporary history and folklore. “From No. 37” is his first documentary as a Director. ProgrammeLecture: 6:00–6:45 pm
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