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About
Sanam Mahloudji is an American writer born in Tehran and based in London.
Her debut novel THE PERSIANS has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2025.
Her fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Kenyon Review, the Idaho Review, Passages North and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her first published story. Her work has been anthologized in All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body and Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them.
Contact
Representation: Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Associates
For publicity inquiries, please contact:
USA: Kassandra Rhoads at Scribner — kassandra.rhoads@simonandschuster.com
UK: Nicola Webb at Fourth Estate — nicola.webb@harpercollins.co.uk
For other correspondence you can reach out to Sanam directly below: