Born to an aristocrat family, Hedayat studied at the French high school in Tehran and then went to Europe to study dentistry which he later abandoned. He wrote many short stories, novels, and some satirical materials. His most famous book is the novella "The Blind Owl". Hedayat committed suicide by gassing himself in Paris, and is buried at Pere ...
Established a literary group named "Rab'eh" with Masood Farzad, Bozorg Alavi and Mojtaba Minovi. Rab'eh is a meaningless word (though based on Rob'eh which means quartet), and Alavi declared that Farzad had made this name to rhyme with the word Sab'eh, the name of a famous literary group at that time.
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In 1927 he tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in the river Marne, but he was rescued.
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