Yaghoub Yadali

Yaghoub Yadali has directed for television and worked for Roshd Magazine as the editor of the film section. His first novel, The Rituals of Restlessness, won Iran’s 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year. However, in 2007 Yadali was sentenced to prison for having depicted an adulterous love affair in the novel, an event that ultimately led to his exile. The Rituals of Restlessness and Sketches in the Garden have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. In addition to those two books, Yadali is the author of the short story collection Probability of Merriment and Mooning. His short stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and the U.S. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.