Shahriar Mandanipour is regarded as one of the most accomplished and successful writers in contemporary Iran.
His honors include the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel of 2004, the 1998 Golden Tablet Award for best fiction in Iran during the previous two decades, and Best Film Critique at the 1994 Press Festival in Tehran.
He is the author of nine volumes of fiction, one nonfiction book, and more than 100 essays in genre such as literary theory, literature and art criticism, creative writing, censorship, and social commentary. His five collections of short stories include The Eighth Day of the Earth, Violet Orient, Midday Moon, Mummy and Honey, and Shadows of the Cave. A recent work, Ultramarine Blue, gathers together 11 stories that relate in various ways to the events of 9/11. He is the author of the two-volume novel, The Courage of Love. Since 1999, he has been the chief editor of Asr-e Panjshanbeh (Thursday Evening), a monthly literary journal published in Shiraz.
As a result of his literary and political activities, Mandanipour has been subjected to harassment, threats, censorship, and intimidation by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. From 1992 to 1998, he was unable to publish his work.
Mandanipour is an International Writing Fellow at Brown University.
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