Daniel Samuilovich (Semyonovich) Komissarov (1907–2008) is a renowned Russian Iranologist and distinguished professor of Persian literature.BBC Persia
/ref> He acted as a professor at Leningrad University for years and was a member of USSR academy of science. Komissarov worked significantly on the literary works of

Sadeq Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel '' The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their care ...

. He translated works of classical Persian poets as Rudaki and modern writers as

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...

, Sadeq Choubak and

Said Nafisi Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) ( fa, سعید نفیسی; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian. Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research proje ...

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