SAYYED QADIR HEDAYATI (b. 1976), a dominant contemporary Kurdish novelist in Iran, has written a number of novels, including The Yoke of Azazel (2012), Bull Roar (2017), and The Punishment of the Grave (2019) in the last decade. Bardinah (2022) is set in the early seventeenth century at the time of Shah Abbas I and includes a relatively extensive geography from Urmia (which was back then populated by Kurds) through Qazvin to Isfahan.
