I've long been telling readers that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an author worth seeking out, and it's great that he's been getting a bit more English-language attention.
Today he gets a lot more well-deserved attention, as The New York Times has a profile of this leading Iranian author, An Iranian Storyteller's Personal Revolution, by Larry Rohter.
Dowlatabadi was in New York in May, for the PEN World Voices Festival and the US launch of his novel, The Colonel.
One of the events with him was taped by C-SPAN's Book TV, and is now available online -- A Discussion on Publishing and Censorship in Iran with Author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. I was lucky enough to be there -- and also got my very own signed copy of The Colonel while I was there.
I'm not a huge fan of signed copies, but I do treasure a few (a personalized Alasdair Gray among them), and I consider this pretty special too:
![My signed copy of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's The Colonel]()
Dowlatabadi was in New York in May, for the PEN World Voices Festival and the US launch of his novel, The Colonel.
One of the events with him was taped by C-SPAN's Book TV, and is now available online -- A Discussion on Publishing and Censorship in Iran with Author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. I was lucky enough to be there -- and also got my very own signed copy of The Colonel while I was there.
I'm not a huge fan of signed copies, but I do treasure a few (a personalized Alasdair Gray among them), and I consider this pretty special too:
