Recent Trends in Iranian Fiction Writing

A lecture by Aida Moradi Ahani, March 3, 2015.

Aida Moradi Ahani was born in Bandaranzali, Iran, in 1983. She now lives and works in Tehran. She graduated in electrical engineering from Azad University (Tehran, Iran- 2007). Since 2005 she has been active as an essayist, editor and writer.

Her first collection of short stories, The Pin on Cat's Tail, was published in 2011 (Cheshmeh publishers, Tehran). Her début novel, Golfing on the Gunpowder was published in 2013 (Negah, Tehran). She has collaborated with another artist to turn one of her short stories into a film script. Another of her stories has been selected and translated into English for Tehran Noir, a collection of Iranian short stories to be published this fall by Akashic Books, New York.

Lecture is in Farsi.

Видео Recent Trends in Iranian Fiction Writing канала Stanford Iranian Studies Program