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Nasrin Rahimieh, Maseeh Chair and Director, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture & Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
The history of modern Persian literature is closely aligned with some of the oppositional movements that culminated in the 1979 revolution. The origins of modern Persian writing are inseparable from a preoccupation that literature speak to the concerns of the masses. Mohamad Ali Jamalzadeh, the reputed father of modern Persian prose, was among the first and most influential advocates of this view to overcome the elitist language and style of early 20th century literature.
