A French-Iranian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist, born in 1933 and based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He achieved international recognition with his novel, La Femme Lapidée, in 1990, which was translated four years later as The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story. The book was adapted into the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M. He died on March 26, 2008.