Nosratollah Navidi
An Iranian Absurdist Playwright By Reza Shirmarz Nosratollah Navidi (1930-1988) was born in Vey Nesar , a village in Sanandaj , in a feudal family who owned a citadel. According to Naseh Kamgari (2022), the ruins of this citadel remains untouched in a village called Soorcheh. Nosratollah finished the military academy and received his BA in Persian Literature before the coup d'etat in 1953. Soon his plays and stories gained fame for him on a national scale. His Two Snakes , a collection of ten stories, was published in 1967. Two Mothers , Bazar , The Man and the Guest , Hunger for Miracle , etc. are a number of his stories published in pre-revolutionary Iran. A Dog at Harvest (directed by Abbas Javanmard ), A Man with Two Trays (directed by Manouchehr Anvar and published in a literary magazine), Sustenance (directed by Jafar Vali), Night, Tractor, The Servant and Master , Tamaroozha (directed by Abbas Javanmard), New Zeal , etc. are some of his plays. A group of his plays wer
