Mahmoud Hosseini Zad is a writer and literary translator. After attending school in Iran, he studied political science in Munich. This was followed by various professional activities, including work for Iranian television and radio, as a lecturer in German, and as a translator at the German Embassy in Tehran.
As a writer, he has published four volumes of stories and one novel in Iran; as a literary translator, he has translated mainly works of contemporary German literature.
He has received several awards for his work, including the Goethe Medal in 2013.
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Mahmoud Hosseini Zad
