Leili Golestan’s confession about an unfinished emotional relationship with Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Leili Golestan, an Iranian translator and gallery owner, and the daughter of Ebrahim Golestan, said in an online interview that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was her first love and she considered Simin Daneshvar her rival.
Jalal Al-e Ahmad was an active member of the Tudeh Party and a writer who had a significant impact on Iran’s literary and intellectual circles. He passed away in September 1969 at the age of 45.
Simin Daneshvar is an Iranian writer and translator who met Jalal Al-e Ahmad in 1948 and married him two years later. Her meeting with Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the 1979 revolution, later became newsworthy.
Leili Golestan, now 81 years old, married Nemat Haghighi, a television cinematographer, in 1968. Their children are Mani, Sanam, and Mahmoud Haghighi. The couple divorced six years later.