Ahmad Ali Khodadadeh

Claus Pedersen ( Københavns Universitet)

Ed. by Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.1.1: Iranian/ Persian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales)

Dates

Born 1883
Died 1955

Places

Active in Iran

Activities

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Prose writer

Resources

Khodadadeh's Works

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Ahmad ‘Ali Khodâdâdeh

(1883-1955), author of the first “working class” novel in modern Iranian literature, was born in 1883 in Shirkhân, Dinvar district, 70 km north east of Kermânshâh, where he died poor and alone in 1955. He was buried in Qom near the central learning center for the Shi’a Muslim clergy. Khodâdâdeh’s father was a minor land owner, a peasant. The family moved to Kermânshâh around the time of the murder of Nâser od-Din Shâh Qâjâr in 1896, and these are almost the only biographical facts we have of the author. But we do know that he was a Kurd with Kurdish (

laki

) as native language, and that he wrote in a peculiar Persian mixed with Kurdish words. Khodâdâdeh married three times and had 6 children. He participated in the Constitutional Revolution in…

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Citation: Pedersen, Claus . "Ahmad Ali Khodadadeh". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 January 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14422, accessed 21 November 2024.]