Shahriar Mandanipour has won numerous awards for his novels, short stories, and nonfiction in Iran, although he was unable to publish his fiction from 1992 until 1997 as a result of censorship. He came to the United States in 2006 as the third International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books by Shahriar Mandanipour

Censoring an Iranian Love Story

by Shahriar Mandanipour

From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English --- a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran.