Iran, Islamic Republic of
Guest of the book fair
After graduating from a mathematics high school, he studied electrical engineering in Iran and Great Britain and today is considered one of the most important authors and essayists of Iran. Shortly after the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution in 1978, he published his second collection Dakhil bar panjereh-ye fulād (Relic-cloth on the Shrine’s Steel Grillwork), which proved to be his breakthrough as an author. He completed his studies in England in 1981 and returned to Iran as the Iran-Iraq War was going on. While serving at the front, he wrote his first novel, Rowḍeh-ye Qāsem (The Requiem of Qasem; Tehran: Nashr-e Now, 1984), which was banned. He won the International Literature Award for The Circle of Literature Lovers in 2021.
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