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Aida Moradi Ahani

AIDA MORADI AHANI is an Iranian writer, translator, and essayist. Her debut book, a collection of short stories titled A Pin on the Cat’s Tail, was published in 2011. She has also published two novels, Golfing on Gunpowder (2013) and Lost Cities (2018), both to wide critical acclaim. Her fiction in translated English has appeared in Tehran Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies). Within the academia, Moradi Ahani has delivered lectures and talks on contemporary Persian literature at Stanford University and University of California, Irvine, among other venues. Her latest book, Other People’s Bed (2021), is a hybrid collection of essays.

Until Our Mouths Hurt
by Aida Moradi Ahani, translated from the Persian by Siavash Saadlou

June 18, 2021 Contributed By: Aida Moradi Ahani, Siavash Saadlou

Stack of Letters

  This is a family photo, with a note on the back that says, Autumn of 1986. The two sitting over on the blanket are my mom and dad, and the two chortling girls of kindergarten age chasing each other on the lawn behind them are me and my sister. Once again, they’d taken us […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Translation Posted On: June 18, 2021

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