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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ((ペルシア語:محمود دولتآبادی), ''Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi'') (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience. ==Biography== In 1940, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi was born to a poor shoemaker in Dowlatabad, a remote village in the Sabzevar, the northwestern part of Khorasan Province, Iran.〔An Iranian Storyteller’s Personal Revolution. Larry Rohter. New York Times. July 1, 2012. ()〕 He worked as a farmhand and attended Mas'ud Salman Elementary School, where he learned to read. Books were a revelation to the young boy. "I read all the romances that we had at that time around the village," he said in an interview.〔(Interview with Mahmoud Dowlatabadi )〕 "I would read on the roof of the house with a lamp…I read War and Peace that way." Though his father had little formal education, he introduced Dowlatabadi to the Persian Classical poets, Saadi Shirazi, Hafez, and Ferdowsi. "(father ) generally spoke in the kind of language they used," Dowlatabadi said. Nahid Mozaffari, who edited a PEN anthology of Iranian literature, said of Dowlatabad, "He has an incredible memory of folklore, which might come from his days as an actor or might come from his origins, as somebody who didn't have a formal education, who learned things by memorizing the local poetry and hearing the local stories."〔 As a teenager, Dowlatabadi took up a trade like his father and opened a shop. One afternoon, he found himself hopelessly bored. He closed the shop, gave the key to a boy, and told him to tell his father, "Mahmoud's left." He caught a ride to Mashhad, where he worked for a year before leaving for Tehran to pursue theatre. There Dowlatabadi worked for a year before he could afford to take theatre classes. When he did, he rose to the top of his class, still working numerous other jobs. He was an actor---and a shoemaker, barber, bicycle repairman, street barker, cotton picker, and cinema ticket taker. Around this time he also ventured into journalism, fiction, and screenplays. "Whenever I was done with work and wasn't preoccupied with finding food and so on, I would sit down and just write," he said.〔 In addition to his performance in plays by Brecht (e.g. ''The Visions of Simone Machard''), Arthur Miller (e.g. ''A View from the Bridge'') and Bahram Beyzai (e.g. ''The Marionettes''), Dowlatabad's novels attracted the attention of local police. In 1974 he was arrested by the Savak, the shah's secret police force. When he wondered exactly what crime he committed, they told him, "None, but everyone we arrest seems to have copies of your novels so that makes you provocative to revolutionaries."〔 He was in prison for two years. Toward the end of his term, Dowlatabadi said, "The story of ''Missing Soluch'' came to me all at once, and I wrote the entire work in my head." Dowlatabadi couldn't write anything down while in prison. "I began to become restless," he said. "One of the other prisoners...said to me, 'You used to be so good at putting up with prison, now why're you so anxious?' And I replied that my anxiety wasn't related to prison and all that came with it, but was because of something entirely else. I had to write this book." When he was finally released, he wrote ''Missing Soluch'' in 70 nights.〔 It later became his first novel published in English, preceding ''The Colonel''.〔(Haus Publishing. The Colonel )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahmoud Dowlatabadi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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