Asef Soltanzadeh

Works

Short stories

• We Disappear in Flight, Tehran: Agah, 2000.
• Newyear's Day Is Delightful Only in Kabul
• Now Denmark
• The Deserter
• You Who Are Here, This Is Not Your Land

  Novels

• Eden's Hell, Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2009.
• Book of Exodus, Copenhagen: Dyiar-e Ketab, 2011.
• The Cinematographer of Noqrah, Copenhagen: Bita Book, Dec. 2011.
• Alas, Mullah Omar, Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2013.
• The brazen Bulls, Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2014.
• The poisonous land, Copenhagen: Bita Book, 2017.

  Anthologized in

• Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian Stories of Migration. Ed. and trans. Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2004.
• "Sohrab's Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction". Ed. and trans. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Pari Shirazi. Costa Mesa, California, Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2008.
• "Herfra min verden går. 23 flersprogede forfattere i Danmark". Copenhagen, Dansk PEN, 2009.
• "Writing from Afghanistan". Ed. and trans. Anders Widmark. at the website.

  Awards

• Golshiri Award, 2001 - "for The Best First Collection of Short Stories, chosen for its impressive and macabre themes achieved through seemingly simple and unadorned language strewn with words and expressions from the author's homeland. Soltanzadeh's book has since been translated into French and Italian ."
• Danish Refugee Council Artist Award, 2003.
• Golshiri Award, 2007 - for The Deserter, Award for the Best Collection of Short Stories.
• Nawrooz Award, 2010 - for "The Deserter", Award for the Best Collection of Afghan Short Stories of the Decade.