Bahram Sadeghi ( fa, بهرام صادقی, Bahrām Sadeqī; 8 January 1937, in
Najaf-Ābād, Isfahan – 3 January 1985, in
Tehran
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) was an
Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
poet and
modernist
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fiction writer.
Sadeghi's characters, many of them failed government employees and frustrated intellectuals, are consumed by anxiety and terror, and at times even undergo
Kafkaesque
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transmutations and mutilations.
Works
Novella
*''The Heavenly Kingdom'' (in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: ملکوت)
Short story collection
*''The Trench and the Empty Canteens'' (in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:سنگر و قمقمههای خالی)
Short stories
*''Tomorrow is on the way''
*''Obsession''
*''Action-packed''
*''The evening prayer''
*''Counter-impact''
*''Mr. writer has just started to write''
References
External links
Some of Sadeghi's stories to read online
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1937 births
1985 deaths
Iranian male writers
Iranian male short story writers
People from Najafabad