Asef Soltanzadeh

Male, Person

1964 –

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Who is Asef Soltanzadeh?

Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1964, moved to Pakistan, then Iran in 1985, and in 2002, to Denmark. He is a writer specialising in prose and drama. He writes primarily in Persian.

"Discovered by the Iranian writer and critic Hushang Golshiri, he has published his short stories in various literary journals. When his book "We Disappear in Flight" was published in Tehran in 2000, he became famous among experts of literature in the Persian language. In Iran a second volume of his short stories is being published."

His two collections of short stories, We Disappear in Flight and The Deserter won the prestigious Golshiri Award in Iran in 2001.

In 2002, when Afghans were no longer allowed to stay in Iran, he moved to Denmark.

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Born
1964
Kabul

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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