Salar Abdoh

A senior magazine editor and essayist living, working, painting and taking care of her cats in Tehran, Farnaz Haeri’s numerous translations into Persian include Natalia Ginzburg’s The Road to the City, Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of the Waves, John Berger’s Here is Where We Meet, William Trevor’s Elizabeth Alone, Haruki Murakami’s Super Frog and Honey Pie, Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Neil Gaiman’s The View from the Cheap Seats,  and Antal Szerb’s Journey by Moonlight.

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, published last year by Viking, was described by the New York Times as “a complex portrait of interpersonal relationships in contemporary Iran.” Salar Abdoh also teaches in the graduate program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York at the City University of New York.