Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning Iranian poet, literary scholar, and translator.
He lives in London where he works as a creative writing teacher, translator and researcher..
Abiz is the co-founder of MAHA, a Persian language online platform for art and literature and Editor of Radio Now podcasts.
He is a board member of the Poetry Translation Centre and chaired the judges for the Sarah Maguire Poetry in Translation Prize 2020-2021.
He has performed at many international festivals and acted as judge in numerous Persian language literary prizes.
English, German and Arabic translations of his poetry have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and have been showcased in public places including Stuttgart subway in Germany.
His translation of African Contemporary Art won him the Iranian Book of the Season Award for the best translation in visual arts in 2007.
Williams into Persian.
Abiz is has translated many leading poets including Rilke, Bunting, Walcott, Kerouac, and C.
K.
His sixth collection, The Desert Monitor , will be published in 2021.
The latest collection published in 2017 was awarded the most prestigious independent poetry award in Iran, the Shamlou Award.
He has so far published five collections of poetry in Persian
Stop! We Should Get Off! , Spaghetti with Mexican Sauce , I Hear My Desk as a Tree , 13/1 Koohsangee Street , and Black Line - London Underground .
His scholarly book Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979 was published in 2020 by Bloomsbury.
Abiz has written extensively on Persian contemporary literature and culture.
Born in South Khorasan, Iran in 1968, Abiz studied English Literature in Mashhad and Tehran universities and received his PhD in Creative Writing-Poetry from Newcastle University in the UK.
Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning Iranian poet, literary scholar, and translator
