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Shahriar Mandanipour
Shahriar Mandanipour (Persian: شهریار مندنی پور; also Shahriar Mondanipour (born February 15, 1957) is an Iranian writer, journalist and literary theorist.
Mandanipour was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Sciences at the University of Tehran, graduating in 1980. In 1981, he enlisted in the army for his military service. To experience war and to write about it, he volunteered to join the front during the Iran-Iraq war and served there as an officer for eighteen months.
Following his military service, Mandanipour returned to Shiraz, where he worked as director of the Hafiz Research Center and National Library of Fars. In 1998, he became chief editor of Asr-e Panjshanbeh (Thursday Evening), a monthly literary journal.
In 2006, Mandanipour traveled to the United States as an International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University. In 2007 and 2008, he was a writer in residence at Harvard University and in 2009 at Boston College. In September 2011, Mandanipour returned to Brown University as a visiting literary arts professor, teaching contemporary Persian literature and modern Iranian cinema. He is now a Professor of Practice at Tufts University.
Mandanipour started writing at fourteen and published his first short story, Shadows of the Cave, in 1985 in the literary journal Mofid Magazine. In 1989, his first collection of short stories was published under the same title.
Regarded as a writer of contemporary Iranian literature, Mandanipour utlizes a creative approach to the use of symbols and metaphors, experimentation with language, time, and space, as well as an awareness of sequence and identity.[citation needed] In his stories, Mandanipour creates a surreal world in which illusion is as natural as terrifying reality. The nightmares and realism of his stories are rooted in the historical horrors and sufferings of the people of Iran.
At the outset, Mandanipour's characters do not conform to conventional molds. Traditional identities are blurred as the lines between right and wrong become thin. Characters are also often driven by the most basic human instincts of fear, survival, and loneliness, Mandanipour's characters often struggle in a world of contradictions and ambiguities with everyday-life.
In a collection of essays on creative writing, The Book of Shahrzad's Ghosts (Ketab-e Arvāh-e Shahrzād), Mandanipour discusses the elements of the story and the novel, as well as his theories on the nature of literature and the secrets of fiction. He writes, "Literature is the alchemy of transforming reality into words and creating a new phenomenon called fictional reality."
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Shahriar Mandanipour
Shahriar Mandanipour (Persian: شهریار مندنی پور; also Shahriar Mondanipour (born February 15, 1957) is an Iranian writer, journalist and literary theorist.
Mandanipour was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Sciences at the University of Tehran, graduating in 1980. In 1981, he enlisted in the army for his military service. To experience war and to write about it, he volunteered to join the front during the Iran-Iraq war and served there as an officer for eighteen months.
Following his military service, Mandanipour returned to Shiraz, where he worked as director of the Hafiz Research Center and National Library of Fars. In 1998, he became chief editor of Asr-e Panjshanbeh (Thursday Evening), a monthly literary journal.
In 2006, Mandanipour traveled to the United States as an International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University. In 2007 and 2008, he was a writer in residence at Harvard University and in 2009 at Boston College. In September 2011, Mandanipour returned to Brown University as a visiting literary arts professor, teaching contemporary Persian literature and modern Iranian cinema. He is now a Professor of Practice at Tufts University.
Mandanipour started writing at fourteen and published his first short story, Shadows of the Cave, in 1985 in the literary journal Mofid Magazine. In 1989, his first collection of short stories was published under the same title.
Regarded as a writer of contemporary Iranian literature, Mandanipour utlizes a creative approach to the use of symbols and metaphors, experimentation with language, time, and space, as well as an awareness of sequence and identity.[citation needed] In his stories, Mandanipour creates a surreal world in which illusion is as natural as terrifying reality. The nightmares and realism of his stories are rooted in the historical horrors and sufferings of the people of Iran.
At the outset, Mandanipour's characters do not conform to conventional molds. Traditional identities are blurred as the lines between right and wrong become thin. Characters are also often driven by the most basic human instincts of fear, survival, and loneliness, Mandanipour's characters often struggle in a world of contradictions and ambiguities with everyday-life.
In a collection of essays on creative writing, The Book of Shahrzad's Ghosts (Ketab-e Arvāh-e Shahrzād), Mandanipour discusses the elements of the story and the novel, as well as his theories on the nature of literature and the secrets of fiction. He writes, "Literature is the alchemy of transforming reality into words and creating a new phenomenon called fictional reality."
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