Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic.

• The School Principal
• By the Pen
• The Tale of Beehives
• The Cursing of the Land
• A Stone upon a Grave

​Many of his novels, including the first two in the list above, have been translated into English.

Jalal traveled to far-off, usually poor, regions of Iran and tried to document their life, culture and problems. Some of these monographs are:

• “Owrazan”
• “Tat people of Block-e-Zahra“
• “Kharg Island, the unique pearl of the Persian Gulf“

Translations:

• The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
• L’Etranger by Albert Camus,
• Les mains sales by Jean-Paul Sartre,
• Return from the U.S.S.R. by André Gide,
• Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco,​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalal_Al-e-Ahmad