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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

1940 - Today

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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian: محمود دولت‌آبادی, romanized: Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi; born August 1, 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. In 2020, he wrote and recited a work called Soldier (Half-Burned boots) for the Art of Peace global project, composed and arranged by Mehran Alirezaei. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi has received more than 108,410 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is the 4,461st most popular writer (down from 4,188th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Iran (down from 306th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ranks 4,461 out of 5,755. Before him are Willem Elsschot, Émile Souvestre, James Dashner, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Eliška Krásnohorská, and Kedarnath Singh. After him are Carmen de Burgos, Edward William Lane, James Agee, Stijn Streuvels, Nikolai Tikhonov, and George Chapman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ranks 342. Before him are Barry Corbin, Franco Bitossi, Jurandir de Freitas, Apolo Nsibambi, David Jason, and Alberto Gallardo. After him are Ralph Towner, Mame Madior Boye, Dani Shmulevich-Rom, Jimmy Ellis, Ignacio Milam Tang, and Helma Sanders-Brahms.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ranks 329 out of 528. Before him are Esmail Ghaani (1957), Emam-Ali Habibi (1931), Shapur IV (null), Sayed Morad Khan (1800), Nusrat Bhutto (1929), and Ali Javan (1926). After him are Ali Mansur (1895), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961), Hadi Khosroshahi (1939), Hassan Habibi (1937), and Alenush Terian (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ranks 49. Before him are Simin Daneshvar (1921), Kader Abdolah (1954), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), and Bozorg Alavi (1904). After him are Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939), Azar Nafisi (1955), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), Ahmad NikTalab (1934), Masih Alinejad (1976), and Roya Hakakian (1966).

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