Abolhassan Najafi

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ابوالحسن نجفی

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1929|06|28}}

| birth_place =Tehran

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|01|22|1929|06|28}}

| death_place = Tehran

| nationality = Iranian

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| education = Unfinished PhD in Linguistics

| alma_mater = Sorbonne University

| occupation = writer and translator

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| known_for = member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature

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Abolhassan Najafi ({{langx|fa|ابوالحسن نجفی}}, also Romanized as "Abolhasan Najafī"; 28 June 1929 – 22 January 2016){{citation needed|date=July 2021}} was an Iranian writer and translator.

Najafi was born in Najaf, Iraq, into a family from Isfahan. He began his literary activities in the 1960s and translated several books from French into Persian. He co-published a successful literary periodical entitled Jong-e Isfahan ({{langx|fa|جُنگ اصفهان|italic=yes}}). After the Iranian revolution, he published a controversial book on Persian usage entitled Let's Avoid Mistakes ({{lang|fa|غلط ننویسیم|italic=yes}}).

Najafi published more than twenty books, among these a dictionary on Persian slang, elements of general linguistics and its application to the Persian language. He translated French novels to Persian, notable works from Jean-Paul Sartre (Le Diable et le bon Dieu, Les sequestres d'Altona, Qu'est-ce que la littérature), André Malraux (Antimémoire), Albert Camus (Caligula), Roger Martin du Gard (Les Thibault), Claude Lévi-Strauss (La race et l'histoire), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince).{{cite web|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=201644|title=Another Persian translation of "Little Prince" coming|date=23 August 2009|work=Tehran Times|accessdate=3 April 2010}}

Najafi was a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1990–2016).