Author: Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh is an Iranian novelist, essayist and translator, who divides his time between New York and Tehran. He is the author of the novels Poet Game (2000), Opium (2004), Tehran at Twilight (2014), and Out of Mesopotamia (2020) and the editor of the short story collection Tehran Noir (2014). His latest novel, A Nearby Country Called Love, will be published in the autumn by Viking. He also teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York.