Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi ( fa, جعفر مدرس صادقی; born May 19, 1954) is an Iranian novelist and editor.
Life
Modarres-Sadeghi was born in
Isfahan and moved to
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...
in 1972. While he was studying in the College of Literature and Foreign Languages in Tehran, he began to work as a journalist in a few dailies and literary magazines, writing reports, reviews and weekly columns. His first short story appeared in a literary monthly, ''Roudaki'', in 1973. His first collection of stories, ''Children Don't Play Anymore'', was published in 1977. His first novel, ''A Play'', was published in 1980. The publication of this first novel coincided with the outbreak of
Iran–Iraq War
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and was neglected by audience and critics.
Modarres-Sadeghi's second novel, ''
Gavkhooni (The River's End''), published in 1983, was acclaimed as an avant-garde literary masterpiece a few years after its publication. It was translated into English in 1996, and was awarded a prize as one of the best novels of post-revolution era in 1998. A movie based on the novel, directed by Behrooz Afkhami, and produced by Ali Moallem, was made in 2003. It was shown in the
Cannes International Film Festival
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, May 2004, in
Directors' Fortnight
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section, and later in the 2004
Vancouver International Film Festival
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The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Fest ...
and a few other international film festivals in As