The Belgium national team will face its counterpart, the Iranian national team, in the match that brings them together in the seventh group competitions in World Cup 2026 At ten o’clock this evening, Sunday, and away from the green rectangle, the confrontation extends to the world of literature and culture, where Belgium brings together one of its most famous sons, novelists, Georges Simenon, the owner of the character of Inspector Maigret, which is considered one of the most prominent icons. Police literature In the twentieth century, while Iran represents the great writer Sadiq Hedayat, one of the most important pioneers Persian literature Hadith and author of the famous novel “The Blind Owl”.
George Simenon
The writer Georges Simenon is a French-speaking Belgian writer. He was born in Liège on February 13, 1903 and died in France on September 4, 1989. He is considered one of the most prolific and most prolific writers. He wrote 193 novels, 158 short stories, and many biographies, articles, and reports listed in his name. He is the most widely read Belgian writer in the world.
One of Georges Simenon’s most prominent works is the novel The Little Tailor or The Ghosts of My Hats, which he wrote in 1948. It is a novel that restores and expands a topic that was treated in the story “The Little Tailor and My Hats,” which he wrote in 1947. The two treatments are very different, and even include radically conflicting elements, and the reader can notice this difference between the story and the novel, this amplification and enrichment, and the transition from one creative level to another level.
The story “The Little Tailor and My Hat” had two versions. The first was titled “Blessed are the simple ones.” It was translated into English and won the prize in the annual detective story competition organized by “Ellery Queen” magazine. It was published in the April 1949 issue, and the French edition of the American magazine was published in the May 1949 issue. In the latter, the phrase “Blessed are the meek because they will own the land” was mentioned in its margin.
George Simenon
Sadiq Hedayat
The writer Sadiq Hedayat, (February 17, 1903, Tehran – died by suicide on April 9, 1951 in Paris), is an Iranian writer who is considered the founder of the short story in Iran. Sadiq Hedayat began his primary studies in the Scientific School in Tehran in the year 1914, from which he moved to the House of Arts in Tehran in the year 1916, which was considered at the time one of the best places for study in Iran, but due to the disease that affected his eyes, he left the House of Arts (which is currently the library of Iran National) and went to the French school of Saint-Louis, where Sadiq Hedayat, the school’s priest, taught the Persian language and in return the priest taught him world literature.
One of his most prominent works is the novel “The Blind Owl” (Bouf Kour), which was ably translated by Dr. Ibrahim El-Desouki Sheta (1943-1998).
Sadiq Hedayat
