Amir Ahmadi Arian is an Iranian writer and translator, a PhD graduate of comparative literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. In Iran, he has published a collection of stories, Fragments of a Crime in 2005, and his novel, The Cogwheels, published in 2009, was shortlisted for Golshiri award. He has worked with various Iranian newspapers and literary magazines, and translated novels by Paul Auster, Cormac Mccarthy, E.L. Doctorow, and P.D James into Persian. His work in English includes scholarly articles and short stories in literary magazines. http://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/media/audio/the_emergence_of_new_eloquence_reflections_on_houshang_golshiri_s_prose