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9 Famous Author Suicides in Literary History

On 9 April 1951, Sadegh Hedayat committed suicide by gassing himself in a small rented apartment in Paris. Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat; February 17, 1903 in Tehran – April 9, 1951 in Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt ...

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Most Important Literary Prizes in the World

The Nobel Prize in Literature is only awarded to the best authors from all around the world. The current laureate is American songwriter Bob Dylan and past laureates have included playwright Harold Pinter, novelist Gao Xingjian, poet Seamus Heaney and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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