List of Iranian writers

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Following is a list of Iranian writers (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their work.

Persian literature of the 20th century

• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Ali Mohammad Afghani
• Ali-Ashraf Darvishian
• Aziz Motazedi
• Bozorg Alavi
• Ebrahim Golestan
• Ghazaleh Alizadeh
• Gholam Hossein Saedi
• Houshang Golshiri
• Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi
• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
• Jamal Mirsadeghi
• Javad Mojabi
• Manouchehr Atashi
• Mahmoud DowlatAbadi
• Mahshid Amirshahi
• Mina Assadi
• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh
• Mohammad Mokhtari

• Parinoush Saniee
• Reza Baraheni
• Sadegh Choubak
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Majid Naini
• Shahriyar Mandanipour
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Simin Daneshvar
• Zoya Pirzad
• Reza Khoshnazar

Writers outside Iran

• Abbas Marufi
• Alexios Schandermani
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
• Amir H. Ladan political researcher, speaker and writer
• Arion Golmakani
• Azar Nafisi
• Aziz Motazedi
• Daryoush Ashouri
• Daryush Shokof
• Elham Yaghoubian
• Hamid Dabashi
• Khosro Naghed
• Mahbod Seraji
• Mahshid Amirshahi
• Navid Hamzavi
• Reza Ghassemi
• Roja Chamankar
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
• Roya Hakakian writer, poet, journalist
• Sahar Delijani
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Shusha Guppy
• Sholeh Wolpé poet, literary translator

Young Writers

• Ahmad Akbarpour
• Ali Ashkannejad
• Arash Hejazi
• Colet Abedi
• Mostafa Mastoor
• Navid Hamzavi
• Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
• Reza Amirkhani
• Sahar Delijani
• Sepideh Shamlou
• Yousef Alikhani

See also

• List of Persian poets and authors

References

• Hassan Mirabedini (1380 (2001)). Sad Sāl Dāstān Nivisi dar Īrān (One Hundred Years of fiction-Writing in Iran). Tihrān: Cheshmeh. ISBN 964-6194-77-X. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)