Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi

Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi ( fa, جعفر مدرس صادقی; born May 19, 1954) is an Iranian novelist and editor.

Life

Modarres-Sadeghi was born in Isfahan and moved to Tehran in 1972. While he was studying in the College of Literature and Foreign Languages in Tehran, he began to work as a journalist in a few dailies and literary magazines, writing reports, reviews and weekly columns. His first short story appeared in a literary monthly, ''Roudaki'', in 1973. His first collection of stories, ''Children Don't Play Anymore'', was published in 1977. His first novel, ''A Play'', was published in 1980. The publication of this first novel coincided with the outbreak of Iran–Iraq War and was neglected by audience and critics.

Modarres-Sadeghi's second novel, '' Gavkhooni (The River's End''), published in 1983, was acclaimed as an avant-garde literary masterpiece a few years after its publication. It was translated into English in 1996, and was awarded a prize as one of the best novels of post-revolution era in 1998. A movie based on the novel, directed by Behrooz Afkhami, and produced by Ali Moallem, was made in 2003. It was shown in the Cannes International Film Festival, May 2004, in Directors' Fortnight section, and later in the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival and a few other international film festivals in Asia.

Modarres-Sadeghi has published six collections of short stories and seventeen novels. His latest novel, ''Behesht o Douzakh'', was published in 2016.

Short stories

*1977 ''Bacheha Bazi Nemikonand'' (The Kids Are Not Playing)''
*1985 ''Ghesmate Digaran (The Others' Lot and Other Stories)''
*1991 ''Twelve Stories''
*1998 ''Kenare Darya, Morakhasi va Azadi (The Seaside, The Leave and The Release)''
*2002 ''Antarafe Khiaban (The Other Side of the Street)''
*2007 ''Vaghaye'e Ettefaghyyeh (Something Happened)''

Novels

*1980 ''A Play''
*1983 ''Gavkhooni''
*1989 ''Safare Kasra (Kasra's Journey)''
*1989 ''Balone Mahta (Mahta's Balloon)''
*1990 ''Nakoja-Abad (Nowhere-ville)''
*1991 ''Kalleye Asb (The Horse's Head)''
*1993 ''Sharike Jorm (The Accomplice)''
*1997 ''Arze Hal (A Petition)''
*1999 ''Shah Kelid (The Master Key)''
*2001 ''Man Ta Sobh Bidaram (I’m Staying Up till Dawn)''
*2005 ''Abo o Khak (Homeland)''
*2008 ''Bijan o Manijeh''
*2009 ''Toope Shabaneh (The Nightly Gun)''
*2014 ''Khaterate Ordibehesht (The Reminiscences of May)''
*2014 ''Rouznameh Nevis (The Journalist)''
*2015 ''Kafe'ee Kenare Aab (A Café on the Beach)''
*2016 ''Behesht o Douzakh (Paradiso and Inferno)''

Edited

*1994 ''Tabari's Commentary on the Qur'an''
*1994 ''Discourses of Mowlana Jalaloddin Rumi''
*1994 ''Discourses of Shamsoddin Muhammad Tabrizi''
*1994 ''A History of Sistan''
*1995 ''A Persian Translation of the Life of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq''
*1996 ''The Book of the Marvels''
*1996 ''Eight Mystic Treatises by Shihaboddin Yahya Suhrawardi''
*1998 ''Baihaqi's History''
*2000 ''The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (a new edition of Mirza Habib's Persian translation of James Morier's novel)''
*2002 ''Atiq's Commentary on the Qur'an''
*2002 ''Sadegh Hedayat, the Short Story Writer (a selection of Hedayat's short stories)''

Translation

*1992 ''Lottery, Chekhov and Other Stories (seven short stories by Shirley Jackson, Anne Tyler, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff & Kazuo Ishiguro)''

Translated into English

* ''The Marsh avkhooni' (1996) translated from the Persian by Afkham Darbandi. Introduction by Dick Davis. Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California
* ''Horse’s Head'' (2011)''Horse's Head: A Novel'' by Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi (2011)

Translated into Turkish

* At Kafasi he Horse's Head Cafer Modarres Sadiqi. Farscadan Ceviren Siyaves Azeri. Avesta Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2001.
* Ben Sabaha Kadar Uyanigim, Cafer Modarres Sadeghi. Ceviren: Maral Jefroudi. Metis Yayincilik Ltd., 2007.

References

External links

Caroun.com
Biographical sketch

{{DEFAULTSORT:Modarres-Sadeghi, Jaafar
1954 births
Living people
Iranian male novelists
Iranian novelists
Iranian male short story writers
Writers from Isfahan
Iranian editors