'The Blind Owl' (Buf-e Kur), a landmark of modern Iranian fiction, was written by which author?

• A Sadegh Hedayat ✓
• B Jalal Al-e Ahmad
• C Houshang Golshiri
• D Sadegh Chubak

Hedayat's 1936 novella is widely considered the most important modernist novel in Persian literature.