Abolhassan Najafi
Abolhassan Najafi (, also Romanized as "Abolhasan Najafī"; 28 June 1929 – 22 January 2016) was an Iranian writer and translator. Najafi was born in Najaf, Iraq, into a 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 litérature"), 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).