"War in Iranian Literature"

Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar is an Iranian writer. He earned his BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Tehran. His novel A Scorpion on the Steps of Andimeshk Railroad Station, published in 2006, won the Mehregan Adab Award and the Hooshang Golshiri Award for the best novel, and the Vaav Award for the year's most unique novel. That book has been translated into French, German,and Kurdish. He also wrote the screenplay for the film "No One Knows about Persian Cats," directed by Bahman Ghobadi and awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He was a Scholar at Risk Fellow at Harvard University and is currently the City of Asylum Fellow at UNLV's Black Mountain Institute.

Lecture in Persian