Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, Out of Mesopotamia, was a NYTimes Editor’s Choice and voted a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His forthcoming book is A Nearby Country Called Love. He teaches creative writing at the City College of New York and divides his time between New York and Tehran.
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by David Saccone-Braslow
Salar Abdoh is a novelist, essayist, and translator born in Tehran, Iran. He attended a boarding school in England before relocating to Los Angeles when his father left Iran for the United States following the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Abdoh received his undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and his Master's from the City College of New York, where now teaches creative writing.