Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian محمود دولتآبادی; born August 1, 1940 at village Dowlatabad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran) is an Iranian writer and actor. Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (also Doulatabadi ) is considered one of the most important Volksepiker Iran.
The elementary school he finished in his native village. In his youth he helped his father in the recap of canvas shoes. At age 13, he left his native village and lived in eyvan -e key, east of Tehran. He worked as a shepherd, farm workers, bicycle mechanic and in a cotton factory. Later he went to Tehran, where he worked in a printing shop and a hairdresser. In Mashhad, he attended night school. He graduated from the school does not, but returned to Tehran, where he worked as controller cards in a movie theater, as warehouse manager and as a prompter at the theater. He applied the age of twenty for the entrance examination at drama school and was accepted despite the lack Baccalaureate. After that, he worked for 14 years in a theater company. In 1975, he was arrested while at a Gorky performance of the night from the stage and spent the next two years in prison.
He began in the 1960s to write and wrote novels and plays. His novel Kalidar is one of the most important in the Iranian culture. His writings were also translated works of Arabic into German, Swedish and Dutch.