List of Iranian writers
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Persian literature of the 20th century
- Ahmad MahmoudAhmad MahmoudAhmad Mahmoud was an Iranian novelist.In his youth he worked as a day laborer, driver, construction worker and suffered imprisonment for leftist political views and oppositionist activities...
- Ali Mohammad AfghaniAli Mohammad Afghani-Biography:Veteran contemporary writer, Ali Mohammad Afghani was born in 1925 in Kermanshah. He was raised in a poor family. Although a top student, he dropped out of school to work along with his father. He tried to get employed in the National Iranian Oil Company, but failed for certain reasons....
- Ali-Ashraf Darvishian
- Aziz MotazediAziz MotazediAziz Motazedi is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He has lived in Montreal, Canada, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics as well as the literary and intellectual discourses of his original country and elsewhere...
- Bijan NajdiBijan NajdiBijan Najdi was an Iranian writer and poet. Najdi is most famous for his short story collection "The leopards who have run with me" .-Life and career:...
- Bozorg AlaviBozorg AlaviBozorg Alavi was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual...
- Ebrahim GolestanEbrahim GolestanEbrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century...
- Fereshteh TavangarFereshteh TavangarFereshteh Tavangar is an Iranian writer and novelist.Her first book is a collection of short stories, Very Here on the Earth published in 1998 in Tehran by Markaz Publication...
- Ghazaleh AlizadehGhazaleh AlizadehGhazaleh Alizadeh was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married Bizhan Elahi and they have a daughter called Salma....
- Gholam Hossein Saedi
- Houshang GolshiriHoushang GolshiriHoushang Golshiri was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
- Jaafar Modarres-SadeghiJaafar Modarres-SadeghiJaafar Modarres-Sadeghi is an Iranian novelist and editor.Modarres-Sadeghi was born in Isfahan and moved to Tehran in 1972. While he was studying in the College of Literature and Foreign Languages in Tehran, he began to work as a journalist in a few dailies and literary magazines, writing reports,...
- Jalal Al-e-AhmadJalal Al-e-AhmadJalal Al-e-Ahmad was a prominent Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic.-Personal life:...
- Jamal MirsadeghiJamal MirsadeghiJamal Mirsadeghi is an Iranian writer.He was born in Tehran, and graduated in Persian Literature from the Literature and Human science Faculty of Tehran University. He held various jobs as an aide, teacher, library staff, and examination designer for governmental employers and staff in the...
- Javad MojabiJavad Mojabi- Profile :He has a BS in Law and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tehran University. He has written hundreds of critical works and essays on art and culture in journals and magazines. He began writing poetry in the 1960s, along with short story writing and research on modern painting in Iran.A well-known...
- Mahmoud DowlatAbadiMahmoud DowlatabadiMahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor. He is known as a realist writer of stories of rural life, in which he largely draws on his own experiences.-Biography:...
- Mahshid AmirshahiMahshid AmirshahiMahshid Amirshahi is a contemporary Iranian writer born in Kermanshah. She is an active proponent of establishing a secular democracy in Iran, and as an opponent of the current Islamic republic, for which she moved into exile in France after the 1979 Iranian revolution.During the revolution,...
- Mina AssadiMina Assadi-Biography:Mina Assadi is a famous poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especially when she describes the fight against the Iranian regime. In 2007 she wrote the poem called "Pimps"...
- Mohammad Ali JamalzadehMohammad Ali JamalzadehMohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani , was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour...
- Mohammad Mokhtari
- Reza BaraheniReza BaraheniReza Baraheni is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.Former president of PEN Canada, the often called "Iran's finest living Writer" lives in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.He’s the author of...
- Sadegh Choubak
- Sadegh HedayatSadegh HedayatSadegh Hedayat was Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories.-Life:...
- Shahriyar MandanipourShahriyar MandanipourShahriar Mandanipour is a novelist and essayist in modern Persian literature.Mandanipour was born and raised in Shiraz. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Sciences at Tehran University, graduating in 1980. In 1981, he enlisted in the army for his military service...
- Shahrnush ParsipurShahrnush ParsipurShahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist. She is the daughter of an attorney in the Iranian Justice Ministry originally from Shiraz.-Biography:...
- Simin DaneshvarSimin DaneshvarSimin Dāneshvar is an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English, German, Italian and Russian into Persian. Daneshvar has a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be...
- Zoya PirzadZoya PirzadZoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist.Pirzad's first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages...
- Mahmoud serajiMahmoud SerajiMahmoud Seraji , aka, M. S. Shahed, the contemporary Persian poet was born on August 23, 1934 in the small town of Astara by the Caspian Sea. According to the biography on his site, Seraji started writing poetry at the age of nine...
Writers outside of Iran
- Abbas MarufiAbbas MarufiAbbas Maroufi is an Iranian novelist and journalist. His most famous novel is The Symphony of the Deads.Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the...
- Alexios SchandermaniAlexios SchandermaniAlexios Schandermani is an Iranian German writer.-Early life:Schandermani lived in Tehran, the capital of Iran. In 1953 US Central Intelligence Agency overthrew the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and restored Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Schandermani's father was a leftist...
- Alireza JafarzadehAlireza JafarzadehAlireza Jafarzadeh is a media commentator on the Middle East and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government. He is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002...
- Amir H. LadanAmir H. LadanAmir H. Ladan a researcher, writer and political activist has written numerous articles and spoken on American foreign policy as it relates to the Middle East, oil and Iran....
political researcher, speaker and writer - Azar NafisiAzar NafisiAzar Nafisi, born ca. 1947, is an Iranian academic and bestselling writer who has resided in the United States since 1997 when she emigrated from Iran. Her field is English language literature....
- Aziz MotazediAziz MotazediAziz Motazedi is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He has lived in Montreal, Canada, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics as well as the literary and intellectual discourses of his original country and elsewhere...
- Daryoush AshouriDaryoush AshouriDariush Ashoori is a prominent Iranian thinker, author, translator, researcher, and public intellectual. He lives in Paris, France.-Work:He studied at the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Economics of the University of Tehran, and has been visiting professor of Persian language and...
- Daryush ShokofDaryush ShokofDaryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
- David MahmoudiehDavid MahmoudiehDavid Mahmoudieh is an Iranian film and music video director, screenwriter and guest film critic. He directs music videos under a variety of pseudonyms, including "R&D", "Merlin", "Uncle Rumple" and "Jury & Executioner"....
- Hamid DabashiHamid DabashiHamid Dabashi born 1951 in Ahvaz is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of over twenty books...
- Iraj RahmaniIraj RahmaniIraj Rahmani is a Canadian-based Iranian writer.He was born and educated in Iran, where he completed his master’s degree, and taught at the Kerman University, Iran, but he was soon in danger because of his democratic activism....
- Khosro NaghedKhosro NaghedKhosro Naghed is a Persian scholar, Iranist and linguist.He wrote numerous books and articles on Iranian culture, Persian history, Persian language and literature and philosophy. His articles have appeared in international as well as Iranian journals inside Iran and has influence on Iranian...
- Mahbod SerajiMahbod SerajiMahbod Seraji Ph.D., is an Iranian - American writer who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, where he works as a Management Consultant.-Early life and education:...
- Mahshid AmirshahiMahshid AmirshahiMahshid Amirshahi is a contemporary Iranian writer born in Kermanshah. She is an active proponent of establishing a secular democracy in Iran, and as an opponent of the current Islamic republic, for which she moved into exile in France after the 1979 Iranian revolution.During the revolution,...
- Reza GhassemiReza GhassemiReza Ghasemi is an Iranian novelist and musician.He was born in Mahshahr from Isfahanian descent. Besides his excellence in the field of fiction, for which he is so popular, he has an undeniable talent in classical Iranian music. He is a true master of the Persian Lute the Setar. He has composed...
- Rosie Malek-YonanRosie Malek-YonanRosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
- Roya HakakianRoya HakakianRoya Hakakian is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like 60 Minutes, Roya became well known for her memoir, Journey from the Land of No in 2004. Her essays on Iranian issues appear in the New...
writer, poet, journalist - Shahrnush ParsipurShahrnush ParsipurShahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist. She is the daughter of an attorney in the Iranian Justice Ministry originally from Shiraz.-Biography:...
- Shusha Guppy
Young Writers
- Ahmad AkbarpourAhmad AkbarpourAhmad Akbarpour Ahmad Akbarpūr , born Ahmad Akbarpour Ahmad Akbarpūr , born Ahmad Akbarpour Ahmad Akbarpūr , born (July 31, 1970 in Lamerd, Fars Province, is novelist and author of short-stories and children books.-Poetry:-Youth books:-Short Story:- References :...
- Arash HejaziArash HejaziArash Hejazi , born 1971 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English and Portuguese into Persian. He is also an editor in Caravan Books Publishing House , and Book Fiesta Literary Magazine...
- Colet AbediColet Abedi-Biography:She was born in Virginia and grew up in Orange County, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of California, Irvine....
- Fereshteh TavangarFereshteh TavangarFereshteh Tavangar is an Iranian writer and novelist.Her first book is a collection of short stories, Very Here on the Earth published in 1998 in Tehran by Markaz Publication...
- Mostafa MastoorMostafa MastoorMostafa Mastoor is an Iranian writer, translator and researcher. He has translated Carver's books into Persian.-References:*...
- Peyman HooshmandzadehPeyman HooshmandzadehPeyman Hooshmandzadeh is an Iranian photographer and author.-Work:He is known for his series of photographs: "Cafe Shooka" and "Teahouse"...
- Reza AmirkhaniReza AmirkhaniReza Amirkhani is a contemporary Iranian novelist.He started writing at high school with "ERMIA" novel.He has studied mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology and is a graduate of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents; he also writes essays and researches...
- Sepideh ShamlouSepideh ShamlouSepideh Shamlou is an Iranian award-winner writer. She has written several novels in Persian. She was born in 1968 in Iran. She obtained a B.Sc. in English...
- Yousef AlikhaniYousef AlikhaniYousef Alikhani is an Iranian writer.-Early life:Alikhani was born in the village of Milek, Qazvīn Province. He studied Arabic literature at the University of Tehran.- Collections of short stories :...