Abolhassan Najafi

Abolhassan Najafi (, also Romanized as "Abolhasan Najafī"; 28 June 1929 – 22 January 2016) was an Iranian writer and translator.

Najafi was born into a Persian family from Isfahan. He began his literary activities in the 1960s and translated several books from French into Persian. He co-published a successful literary periodical entitled ''Jong-e Isfahan'' (). After the Iranian revolution, he published a controversial book on Persian usage entitled ''Let's Avoid Mistakes'' ().

Najafi published more than twenty books, among these a dictionary on Persian slang, elements of general linguistics and its application to the Persian language. He translated French novels to Persian, notable works from Jean-Paul Sartre (''Le Diable et le bon Dieu'', ''Les sequestres d'Altona'', ''Qu'est-ce que la littérature''), André Malraux (''Antimémoire''), Albert Camus (''Caligula''), Roger Martin du Gard (''Les Thibault''), Claude Lévi-Strauss (''La race et l'histoire''), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (''Le Petit Prince'').

Najafi was a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1990–2016). Provided by Wikipedia
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