Ja'far Modarres-Sadeghi
Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi (Persian: 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, 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
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- 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 [Gavkhooni] (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)[1]
Translated into Turkish
- At Kafasi [The 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
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LCCN 2011018604. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
External links
- Caroun.com: Biographical sketch
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