SANAM MAHLOUDJI
Sanam Mahloudji is an American writer born in Tehran and based in London.
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.
By turns satirical and philosophical, spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s, The Persians upends the reader’s expectations while exploring questions about love, family, money, and art. Wry and witty, brazen and absurd, The Persians is a deeply moving and profoundly searching reinvention of the American family saga. The Persians was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2025.
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‘A magnificent and sophisticated novel. I lapped up its wonderful characterisations, profound insights and vivacious prose’
Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
‘Exuberant, whip-smart, infused with melancholy, tragicomic, huge-hearted and sharp-toothed… A joy of a debut novel by the real deal‘
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas