About Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. He is widely considered to be the father of the atheist movement in Iran. It was here that he first became acquainted with world literature. During this period, he also began practicing vegetarianism and published his first book, Man and Animal (1924), which focused on animal welfare, followed by The Benefits of Vegetarianism in 1927.
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