Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Ghazal Mosadeq 

Ghazal Mosadeq was raised in Tehran, Iran, and is a poet, writer and literary translator. Her work has been published internationally in anthologies and publications in the UK, Iran, Canada, Tajikistan,…...

Mana Neyestani 

Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani was born in Tehran. For several years, he worked for the government magazine Iran. His use of an Azeri word for "cockroach" in a children's cartoon published in May…...

Soheila Beski 

Soheila Beski, born in 1953, in Tehran, has published two collections of short stories in Iran, one of which has won a literary award and the second of which was nominated for the same award. She has published…...

Elham Eshraghi 

Elham Eshraghi was born in the town of Golpayegan, Iran in 1974. She lived with her grandmother until the age of six and retraces her interest in folktales, folk arts, and nature to these years and her…...

Assurbanipal Babilla 

Assurbanipal Babilla (1944–2011) was born in Tehran. He was one of three resident directors with the famed Drama Workshop of Tehran from 1973 to 1978, where he staged several of his own plays. The…...

Shahriar Mandanipour 

Shahriar Mandanipour has won numerous awards for his novels, short stories, and nonfiction in Iran, although he was unable to publish his fiction from 1992 until 1997 as a result of censorship. He came…...

Granaz Moussavi 

Granaz Moussavi was born in Tehran in 1974. She received a degree in screen studies from Flinders University in Adelaide and a postgraduate degree in film editing at the Australian Film television and…...

Shams Langeroody 

Shams Langeroody is one of the most prominent literary figures of contemporary Iran. He was born in 1951, in Langrood, a costal town edging on the Caspian Sea. Langeroody moved to Rasht, a large Northern…...

Sholeh Wolpé 

Sholeh Wolpé is one of the regional editors of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, edited by Reza Aslan (Norton 2010). She is the author of Rooftops of Tehran, The…...

Abbas Saffari 

Abbas Saffari was born in 1951 in Yazd, Iran, and has lived in the U.S. since 1979. While still in high school in Iran, he wrote lyrics for several popular singers, including Farhad's classic song…...

Tirdad Zolghadr 

Tirdad Zolghadr was born in California and raised in Iran, England, and Switzerland. He holds a B.A. in history and political science and an M.A. in English and comparative literature, both from the University…...

Goli Taraghi 

Goli Taraghi was born in Tehran. She began her writing career with a collection of short stories entitled I Am Che Guevara Too in 1969. Her first novel, Winter Sleep, was published in 1973 and has been…...

Mohsen Makhmbalaf 

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, born in 1957, was revered as the prototypical "Islamic" artist up until about 1990. He grew up in a conservative Moslem home, became politically active in opposing the Shah at a young…...

Nasser Yousefi 

Forugh Farrokhzad 

Arguably the most famous woman in the history of Persian literature, Farrokhzad was born in Tehran to a middle-class family of seven children. She married at seventeen and divorced within three years,…...

Sohrab Sepehri 

The poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri was born in 1928 in Kashan, Iran. He worked in several government agencies while pursuing his personal interests in poetry and painting. During these years he also traveled…...

Kader Abdolah 

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…...

Bijan Mofid 

Playwright and director Bijan Mofid is one of the very few serious modern Iranian artists whose writing has reached beyond the intelligentsia to a broad general audience. He was born in Tehran in 1935.…...

Ahmad Shamlou 

Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000) is recognized as one of Iran's greatest modern poets, writing in the new mode of expression pioneered by Nima Yushij. Born into a military family, he spent an itinerant youth…...

Firouz Nadji-Ghazvini 

Firouz Nadji-Ghazvini is a poet, journalist, and essayist living in political exile in Paris, where he works as a press photographer. The son of a military officer, Nadji-Ghazvini grew up in Tehran. Despite…...

Bahram Beyzaii 

Bahram Beyzaii was born in Tehran in 1938. He is a director, producer, and screenwriter. In 1968 he was one of the first writers to join the controversial Iranian Writer's Guild (Kanun-e Nevisandegan-e…...

Salar Abdoh 

Salar Abdoh was born and raised in Tehran and came to the United States after the revolution. His first book, The Poet Game, was published in the United States in 2000. His second work, With Opium, will…...

Behnam Dayani 

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