Kader Abdolah (born 1952 in Iran) studied physics in Tehran and was active in the student resistance. He published two novels about life under the Khomeini regime before fleeing his homeland in 1985. At the invitation of the United Nations, he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee in 1988.
Cuneiform has been published in Germany, France, and Norway and will soon be published in Italy, Denmark, and Spain.