Authors & translators

Travel writer and translator of science books. She lives in Shiraz and writes about gardens and architecture.

Editor and creative writing teacher. She has worked with first-time authors for years.

Poet and poetry translator. Her first collection is written as letters.

Researcher in the history of culture and book arts. She has worked for years in libraries and manuscript collections and writes about the history of paper and binding.

Iranian-born writer in London who writes novels in English; her main themes are memory and handicrafts.

Cook and researcher of Iran's local cuisines. He has spent years collecting home recipes from Gilan to Kerman.

Fiction writer and screenwriter from Tehran. His stories are mostly about families and the old secrets of cities.

Mathematician and author of popular maths books.

English novelist whose stories are set in the villages of northern England.

Hamburg-based fiction writer who writes in German; her stories move between Tehran and Hamburg.