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Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room
Sponsor
UVA Creative Writing and the Dungannon Foundation
Amir Ahmadi Arian reads from his work as part of his time at UVA as a Rea Visiting Writer in Fiction. Amir Ahmadi Arian has published two novels, a collection of stories and a book of nonfiction in Persian. He also translated from English to Persian novels by E.L Doctorow, Paul Auster, P.D. James and Cormac McCarthy. In English, He has published short stories and essays in Harper’s, Paris Review, The New York Times, The Nation, New York Review of Books, etc. His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperVia/HarperCollins in 2020.