Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour has won numerous awards for his novels, short stories, and non-fiction in Iran, although he was unable to publish his fiction from 1992 until 1998 as a result of censorship. Mandanipour was born in 1957 in Shiraz and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His work has appeared in PEN America, Literary Review and the Kenyon Review, and he is regarded as one of the most accomplished and successful writers in contemporary Iran.