House Arrest

HASAN ALIZADEH was born in the religious city of Mashhad, Iran, in 1947. He embarked on a literary career, initially as a short story writer, and as a young fiction writer he published in the avant-garde fiction anthology Tablet (1967-1977). With only two poetry collections to his name, Alizadeh’s talent is widely recognized in Iran, as shown by his having won the Modern Iranian Poetry Prize in 2002, but very little is known about him personally as he declines to give interviews or talk about himself.

KAYVAN TAHMASEBIAN is an Iranian poet, translator and critic. He is the author of Isfahan’s Mold (Goman, 2016), a book about the short story writer Bahram Sadeqi. Tahmasebian has also translated Beckett, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Ponge, and Mallarmé into Persian.

REBECCA RUTH GOULD is a writer, translator and scholar working on the intersections of literary, legal and political theory. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020) and author of Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016).