Contributor

Shahriar Mandanipour

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Contributor

Shahriar Mandanipour

Iran United States

Shahriar Mandanipour is an award-winning, exiled Iranian author and journalist who served in the Iran-Iraq war. His fiction has been published throughout the world, including two acclaimed novels published in English and the story collection Seasons of Purgatory. In 2006, Mandanipour moved to the United States, where he became a citizen in 2021....

He has held fellowships at Brown University, Harvard University, and Boston College and has taught at Brown University and Tufts University. He lives in California.

The Poet, His Cut-Off Head in His Hand, Went Singing Songs and Ghazals: Literature in Iran

By Shahriar Mandanipour

Iran’s literature has survived, and its survival has a secret.

Translated from Persian by Sara Khalili

Mummy and Honey

By Shahriar Mandanipour

She had seen a rope in the middle of her room and when she bent down to pick it up, the rope had with insolent reluctance slithered into the folds of the bedding.

Translated from Persian by Sara Khalili

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Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour

Articles by Shahriar Mandanipour

The Poet, His Cut-Off Head in His Hand, Went Singing Songs and Ghazals: Literature in Iran

Mummy and Honey