Asef Soltanzadeh
Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in the year 1964. He moved to Pakistan and then to Iran in the year 1985 and in t...
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Mohammad Asef
Soltanzadeh was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in the year 1964. He moved to
Pakistan and then to Iran in the year 1985 and in the year 2002, he moved to
Denmark. He is a writer that specializes in drama ad prose. Mainly he writes in
Persian language.
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Discovered by the Iranian
critic and writer called Hushang Golshiri, he has published his short stories
in many literary journals. When his book called ‘We Disappear in Flight’ was
published in the Tehran in the year 2000, he became popular among the
professionals of literature in the Persian Language. In Iran, a second edition
of his short stories is being published.
Two collections of
his short stories; The Deserter
and We Disappear won the significant Golshiri award in Iran in the year 2001.
In the year 2002, he moved to Denmark, when the people of Afghanistan
were no more permitted to stay in Iran.
Works
Short stories
His most recent collections of stories,
in Persian, are:
- We Disappear in Flight,
Tehran: Agah, 2000.
- Newyear's Day Is Delightful Only in Kabul
- Now Denmark
- The Deserter
- You Who Are Here, This Is Not Your Land
Novels
- Eden's Hell
- Book of Exodus,
Copenhagen: Dyiar-e Ketab, 2011.
- The Cinematographer of Noqrah,
Copenhagen: Bita Book, Dec. 2011.
- Alas, Mullah Omar,
Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2013.
Anthologized
in
- Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian Stories of
Migration. Ed. and trans. Shouleh
Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books,
2004.
- "Sohrab's
Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction". Ed. and
trans. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Pari Shirazi. Costa Mesa, California,
Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2008.
- "Herfra
min verden går. 23 flersprogede forfattere i Danmark". Copenhagen,
Dansk PEN, 2009.
- "Writing
from Afghanistan". Ed. and trans. Anders Widmark. at the website.
Awards
- Golshiri Award,
2001 (Golshiri Foundation, Iran)
- Danish
Refugee Council Artist Award, 2003.
- Golshiri Award,
2007 (Golshiri Foundation, Iran) - for The Deserter, Award for the Best Collection of Short
Stories.
- Nawrooz
Award, 2010 (Kabul, Afghanistan) - for The Deserter, Award for the Best
Collection of Afghan Short Stories of the Decade.
