Roger Lescot (1914–1975) was a French orientalist and diplomat known for his research of the Kurdish language.
In 1935 he began to learn Kurdish,[2] and in 1936 during the French Mandate of Syria, he was in contact with the Yazidi in the Kurd Dagh and also with the Shia in the south of Lebanon.
[4] Lescot then wrote for several Kurdish outlets such as the Hawar, Roja Nû or Ronahî.
[6] Upon his initiative the chair for Kurdish lectures was created at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in 1945, a position he held until 1947,[7] and trespassed to Kamuran Bedirkhan, as he took up diplomatic work as a French diplomat in Cairo[1] and work for the French intelligence.
[9] In 1953 he published a French translation from the Persian of Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl as La chouette aveugle.