Abolhassan Najafi
Abolhassan Najafi was an Iranian writer and translator.
Najafi was born in Najaf, Iraq, into a family from Isfahan. He began his literary activities in 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, André Malraux, Albert Camus, Roger Martin du Gard, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Najafi was a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
