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Majid Gheisari

Iranian writer and novelist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ21600117 ↗
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Majid Gheisari (Persian: مجید قیصری; born December 24, 1966, in Tehran) is an Iranian writer and novelist. He has won the International Eurasia Award from Russia for the premier novel in 2018.

Majid Gheisari has been a referee at various literary festivals in Iran.

Life and education

Majid Gheisari was born in Narmak neighbourhood, Tehran, Iran. In 1984, He went to the Iran–Iraq War voluntarily when he was eighteen and remained in the front until the end of the war. In 1989, After the end of the war he continued his studies in psychology and finally in 1993, he received Bachelor's degree in this field from Allameh Tabataba'i University.

In 1993, he started writing in an instinctive and self-taught manner. Since 1995, he entered the field of literary fiction and created numerous works in the field of short and long fiction.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Majid Gheisari” as iranian writer and novelist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2018, 1984, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Majid, Gheisari and Iranian can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21600117. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 2018, 1984 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Majid Gheisari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.