List of Iranian writers

Following is a list of Iranian writers (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their work.

Persian literature of the 21st century
• Ali Abdolrezaei

• Houshang Asadi

• Esmail Khoi

• Ebrahim Nabavi

• Noureddin Zarrinkelk

Persian literature of the 20th century
• Ali Abdolrezaei

• Ali Mohammad Afghani

• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

• Bozorg Alavi

• Ghazaleh Alizadeh

• Mahshid Amirshahi

• Mina Assadi

• Mansoor Yaghoti

• Manouchehr Atashi

• Reza Baraheni

• Sadegh Choubak

• Simin Daneshvar

• Ali-Ashraf Darvishian

• Levon Davidian

• Mahmoud DowlatAbadi

• Karim Emami

• Ebrahim Golestan

• Houshang Golshiri

• Sadegh Hedayat

• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh

• Reza Khoshnazar

• Ahmad Mahmoud

• Shahriyar Mandanipour

• Jamal Mirsadeghi

• Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi

• Javad Mojabi

• Mohammad Mokhtari

• Aziz Motazedi

• Majid Naini

• Javad Nurbakhsh

• Shahrnush Parsipur

• Zoya Pirzad

• Hossein Rajabian

• Gholam-Hossein Saedi

• Parinoush Saniee

• Ghadam-Ali Sarami

• Abbas Shafiee

• Reza Shirmarz

Writers outside Iran
• Ali Abdolrezaei

• Mahshid Amirshahi

• Mahyar Amouzegar

• Daryoush Ashouri

• Shokoofeh Azar

• Roja Chamankar

• Hamid Dabashi

• Annahid Dashtgard

• Sahar Delijani

• Reza Ghassemi

• Shusha Guppy

• Roya Hakakian

• Alireza Jafarzadeh

• Amir H. Ladan

• Abbas Marufi

• Abbas Milani

• Melody Moezzi

• Aziz Motazedi

• Azar Nafisi

• Khosro Naghed

• Shahrnush Parsipur

• Hamid Sadr

• Alexios Schandermani

• Mahbod Seraji

• Reza Shirmarz

• Niloufar Talebi

• Abbas Tashakkori

• Sholeh Wolpé

• Elham Yaghoubian

• Mehri Yalfani

Contemporary writers
• Ali Abdolrezaei

• Colet Abedi

• Ahmad Akbarpour

• Yousef Alikhani

• Reza Amirkhani

• Sahar Delijani

• Ahmad Beiranvand

• Mohammad Hanif

• Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

• Arash Hejazi

• Mostafa Mastoor

• Sadegh Karamyar

• Hamid Rashidi

• Nazi Safavi

• Hossein Sanapour

• Sepideh Shamlou