Shahriar Mandanipour has won awards for his novels, short stories and non-fiction in Iran, although he was unable to publish his fiction from 1992 until 1997 through censorship. He went to the US in 2006 and is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard.
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. His work has appeared inPEN AmericaandThe Literary Reviewand is forthcoming inThe Kenyon Review.