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Freidoune Sahebjam

Freidoune Sahebjam (Persian: فریدون صاحب جم) (1933 – 26 March 2008) was a French-Iranian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist who resided in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.

He gained international recognition for his novel La Femme Lapidée, in 1990, about Soraya Manutchehri, which was translated four years later as The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story. The book became the basis for screenplay of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., in which the American actor James Caviezel portrays Sahebjam.[citation needed]

Sahebjam was a journalist for the French TV channel LCI and for French newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Télégramme.

Before his death, he had recently written a biography on his mother, an aristocrat of Qajar heritage, entitled Une Princesse Persane. He died on Wednesday 26 March 2008, aged 75. The cause of death was not reported.

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