Asef Soltanzadeh
Afghan writer
Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh (Dari Persian: محمد آصف سلطانزاده) is a writer specialising in prose and drama, primarily in Dari Persian. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1964 and moved to Pakistan. Then in 1985, he moved to Iran and then in 2002, he moved to Denmark.
Discovered by the Iranian writer and critic Hushang Golshiri, he has published his short stories in various literary journals. When his book Dar Goriz Gom Mishawim (English: We Disappear in Flight) was published in Tehran in 2000, he became famous among experts of literature in the Persian language (one of the literary languages of Afghanistan). The volume includes 8 stories.
In Iran a second volume of his short stories is being published."
His two collections of short stories, We Disappear in Flight and The Deserter won the prestigious Golshiri Award in Iran in 2001.
Soltanzadeh's short story Dotai pashe (A Pair of Clubs) from We Disappear in Flight has been translated from Dari Persian into Polish by Ivonna Nowicka.
Works
Collections of 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 (2 binds), Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2009.
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