Habib Ahmadzadeh is an Iranian author

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He is a veteran

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 of the Iran-Iraq War

Iran-Iraq War

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, whose military

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 career began when he served as a teenage Basiji and ended after he attained the rank of Captain

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 in the regular army

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. He has studied theatre arts and is an accomplished scenarist. Ahmadzadeh is also the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories called The War Involved City Stories (Dastan-ha-ye Shahr-e Jangi), one of which became the basis for the film Night Bus (Autobus-e Shabaneh; directed in 2007 by the well-known film and television artist Kiumars Poorahmad). Ahmadzadeh also provided the research for Conversation with the Shadow (Goft-o Goo ba Sayeh (directed in 2006 by Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai

Khosrow Sinai is an Iranian film director. His works are usually based on social documentations. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran...

), a study of one of Iran

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’s greatest writers Sadeq Hedayat. Part biography

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, part literary criticism

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, the film is an original contribution to the voluminous literature

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 on Hedayat’s most important work of fiction The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl is Sadegh Hedayat's most enduring work of prose and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is...

(Buf-e Kur).