Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی in Persian) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual.
Selected Works :
Chamedan (The Suitcase) (1934) Varaq Pareh’ha-ye Zendan (Scrap Papers from Prison) (1941) Panjah-o Seh Nafar (Fifty Three Persons) (1942) Nameh’ ha va Dastan’ha-ye digar (Letters and Other Stories) (1952) Chashmhayash (Her Eyes) (1952)
Translations into Persian:
- Anton Chekhov‘s The Cherry Orchard
- Samuil Marshak‘s The Twelve Months
- George Bernard Shaw‘s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- J.B. Priestley‘s An Inspector Calls
- Friedrich Schiller‘s Jungfrau von Orleans
- Theodor Nöldeke‘s Das Iranische Nationalepos