Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour was born in Shiraz on 15 February 1957. A graduate in political science from Tehran, he served eighteen months as an officer at the front during the war against Iraq, then directed in Shiraz the centre for studies on Hafez and the national library of Fars. In August 1996, on the coach carrying writers that its driver tried to hurl into a ravine on the road to Armenia, he seized the wheel. He then directed the review Asr-e Panjshanbeh until it was banned, reached the United States in 2006 and has taught at Harvard and Tufts.

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• Short storiesمومیا و عسلShahriar Mandanipour · 1996Literature