Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi was born in 1940 in Dowlatabad, near Sabzevar, into a poor family of cobblers; he tended flocks, worked in the fields, then was a cobbler, a barber, a bicycle repairman, a spinning-mill worker. Having gone up to Tehran, he entered the theatre, acted on stage and wrote for the cinema. Arrested by the political police in the mid-seventies, he was held without trial until 1976. Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize in 2013 for another novel, he lives in Tehran.

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• NovelکلیدرMahmoud Dowlatabadi · 1984not translated into EnglishLiterature