Yaghoub Yadali
From 19 October to 15 December 2021

The Iranian fiction writer Yaghoub Yadali is the author of three short story collections and three novels, including Rituals of Restlessness(Phoneme, 2016; original Farsi edition, 2004), which won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award. He worked as a producer for Iranian television until 2007, when he was sentenced to a year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in Rituals of Restlessness, forcing him to choose exile in the United States. A contributor to Words Without Borders, Consequence Magazine, and Sampsonia Way Magazine, he has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and the City of Asylum Pittsburgh Organization, USA.