Writing a Persian Novel in America

Shahryar Mandanipour is an award-winning Iranian and international writer. He won the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel (2004); the Golden Tablet Award for best fiction of the past 20 years in Iran (1998); and Best Film Critique at the Press Festival in Tehran (1994).

Shahryar was the founder of Asr-e Pandjshanbeh (Thursday Evening), a monthly literary journal published since 1999 in Shiraz. He was also director of the Hafiz Research Center in Shiraz and was previously director of the National Library of Fars and director of the Bureau of Fars Province Public Libraries in Shiraz. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tehran University. For the past two years, he has been artist-in-residence at Braun University and Harvard University. His new novel is published by Alfred Knoff in the U.S. and in seven different languages around the world.

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