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About Amirhossein Khorshidfar 

Amirhossein Khorshidfar (b.Tehran-1981) is an award-winning Iranian writer, literary critic, and journalist. He is best known for his short story collection Life Goes on According to Your Will( 2006).
He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran in industrial design. Still, he did not pursue this field after graduation.
In 2001, Khorshidfar published four children’s books with Mohammadali Baniasadi as one of the illustrators: The First Days on Earth, The Day the Sky Broke, The Boy Who Had No Star, and The Rain Story.
The following year, his short story “Neighbor” was selected for Sadegh Hedayat literary award. His
short story collection “Life Goes on According to Your Will” was published in 2006. This collection, including ten short stories, won the most prominent literary awards and was nominated for the best literary fiction of the year. It was selected as the best short story collection of the decade in opinion polls from Iranian authors and critics held by Hamshahri newspaper and Chelcheragh weekly magazine.
In 2009, Khorshidfar rewrote and published Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi’s Stories. Amirhossein khorshidfar has been a jury member of both Roozirozegar and Golshiri literary awards from 2008 to 2011.
Khorshidfar worked as a literary editor in the Ofoq publication from 2010 to 2013. During this period, Ofoq’s publication won the national award for the best foreign literary book and best Persian story collection for the first time since its foundation.
He also pursued a career in journalism in established Iranian reformist newspapers such as Bahar, Shargh, Etemad, and Roozegar from 2006 to 2015. He was the editor of the 47th volume of Nafe literary magazine. He published a series of articles on the presence of urban spaces in the work of Iranian authors in the Cinema and Literature Magazine.
In recent years Khorshidfar has held several literary courses, including “How Fiction is Made,” “Modernism in European Novels,” “20th-century Novels”, “How to Enjoy Literature,” “Novella,” and “Persian Fiction Forms.” He has also been a lecturer for short literary courses at Tehran University.
In 2017, in collaboration with Bahar Ahmadi Fard, he translated the novel “Loitering with Intent” by Muriel Spark into Persian.
In the same year, His first novel “Tehraniha” and his short story collection, “Betting on a Race Horse and Other Short Stories,” were published. “Tehraniha” was republished three times in a short period.
Currently, he is working on two other novels and a book on the spatial relationship between literature and the city.