Abolhassan Najafi

Abolhassan Najafi (Persian: ابوالحسن نجفی, also Romanized as "Abolhasan Najafī"; 28 June 1929 – 22 January 2016) was an Iranian writer and translator.

Abolhassan Najafi ابوالحسن نجفی
Born	(1929-06-28)28 June 1929 Tehran
Died	22 January 2016(2016-01-22) (aged 86) Tehran
Nationality	Iranian
Education	Unfinished PhD in Linguistics
Alma mater	Sorbonne University
Occupation(s)	writer and translator
Known for	member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Najafi was born in Najaf, Iraq, into a family from Isfahan. He began his literary activities in the 1960s and translated several books from French into Persian. He co-published a successful literary periodical entitled Jong-e Isfahan (Persian: جُنگ اصفهان). After the Iranian revolution, he published a controversial book on Persian usage entitled Let's Avoid Mistakes (غلط ننویسیم).

Najafi published more than twenty books, among these a dictionary on Persian slang, elements of general linguistics and its application to the Persian language. He translated French novels to Persian, notable works from Jean-Paul Sartre (Le Diable et le bon Dieu, Les sequestres d'Altona, Qu'est-ce que la litérature), André Malraux (Antimémoire), Albert Camus (Caligula), Roger Martin du Gard (Les Thibault), Claude Lévi-Strauss (La race et l'histoire), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince).[1]

Najafi was a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1990–2016).