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Mohammad MohammadAli
Writer
Iran
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Mohammad MohammadAli was born into a large family in Tehran in 1948. His father was a businessman. His mother, a housewife, loved ancient Persian tales and epics, which she shared with her children. Mohammad-Ali lives with his wife and two children in Tehran.
A teacher who wrote poetry and prose awakened Mohammad-Ali’s interest in literature. He began to write, while he was still at school. A short story he entered in a literary competition won first prize in his district. At Grammar School he focused contemporary Iranian authors, but was also introduced to the works of Jack London and Ernest Hemingway. Mohammad-Ali wrote theatrical pieces and starred as an actor himself. He received a special award for his journalist contribution to the school yearbook.
His first volume of stories, “There are Wolves in Hend-abad”, appeared in 1974. Four years later a second volume, “The Spirits”, was published. While studying Politics and Sociology, Mohammad-Ali worked as a civil servant. In 1977 he joined the Iranian Writers Association and he participated in the famous Tehran Goethe institute lectures, in which around 60 banned Iranian authors read from their works as a protest against the Shah’s dictatorship and censorship.
In 1980 Mohammad-Ali became editor-in-chief of the literary journal “Borj” (tower), in which he described his experiences during his trop to the Soviet Union. The third volume of his stories, “Retirement”, and a collection of essays, “Copper”, were published in 1987. In 1991 the novel “Thunder and Lightning Without Rain” and the story “The Hidden Role” appeared. “The Second Eye” followed in 1994.
In 1997 he presented the novel “Wet Beliefs of a Dead Man”; in 1998 the story collection “Regret from the Opposite Side” and one year later the revised report of his journey through the Soviet Union, “Five Years Before 1985”. His latest novel is called “Naked in the Wind”.
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