Born in 1981, Aliyeh Ataei is an Afghan writer who received her degree in dramatic writing from the University of Tehran. She is the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction, in her native Persian, all of which have won some of Iran’s most prestigious awards. Translations of her works into English can be found in such publications as Guernica, Words Without Borders, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Ataei lives and works in Tehran.
July/Aug 2022
To Live Again
Translated from the Persian The TV announced that Tehran’s pollution index was at 140 and that children and the elderly should not leave home. I was supposed to take my […]