Fereshteh Ahmadi


Fereshteh Ahmadi is an Iranian novelist, short story writer, literary critic and editor.

Life

Born in 1972, Fereshteh Ahmadi is a graduate of architecture from The University of Tehran. She began her writing career in the late 1990s as a journalist, writing reports, reviews and weekly columns for a few dailies and literary magazines. Her first published book, Nameless is a story for young children. Ahmadi's first collection of short stories, Everyone's Sarah , was published in 2004. Television, a short story in this collection was selected by Hooshang Golshiri Foundation as one of the best short stories of the year. Her first and second novels, Fairy of Forgetfulness and Cheese Forest , were published in 2009. Hyperthermia , Ahmadi's second collection, was published in 2013.
Fereshteh Ahmadi has published three collections of short stories and two novels. Her latest book, Domestic Monsters , is a collection of eight short stories, published in 2016. She is an editor for a few publishing houses and a member of award juries in several national literary events.

Short stories