Pasteur Vallery Radot, a member of the French Academy. The book was well received in the French literary circles. The Blind Owl was translated into English by D. P. Costello (1957), by Iraj Bashiri (1974, revised in 1984 and again in 2013), by Naveed Noori (2011) and by Sassan Tabatabai (2022). It has subsequently been translated into many other languages. Film The novel was made into a film in 1974, directed by Kioumars Derambakhsh, starring Parviz Fanizadeh, Farshid Farshood and Parvin Solaymani. It was also very loosely adapted into the 1987 film The Blind Owl directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was adapted into a 2018 feature film, The Blind Owl: Boofe Koor by Iranian-Canadian Mazdak Taebi. References External links Online Persian text Hedayat's original handwriting of The Blind Owl Iraj Bashiri's translation Symbolism of women in Hedayat's "Blind Owl", by Massoume Price, Iran Chamber. This Book Will End Your Life: The Greatest Modern Persian Novel Ever Written by Porochista Khakpour The Blind Owl in Internet Speculative Fiction Database 1937 novels Books by Sadegh Hedayat Iranian speculative fiction novels Persian literature Persian-language novels Works about philosophical pessimism