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In the World War II years, Alavi was one of the founders of the Tudeh (Communist) Party of Iran and edited the party newspaper Mardom.
Alavi's novel called Salariha (The Salari Family) and Mirza, a collection of six short stories written in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were published in Tehran in 1978.
Alavi visited Iran briefly in 1979 and again in 1980, where he had a family before his 1952 departure for Europe.
Bozorg Alavi (born Seyyed Mojtaba Alavi) was born in Tehran, Iran.
Alavi was in Germany when the 1953 Coup d'état overthrew the government of Premier Mossadegh and resulted in massive arrests and imprisonment.
Alavi stayed in exile in East Berlin, teaching at Humboldt University, until the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty and the emergence of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.