Ali Araghi

Professional Bio

Ali Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator and the winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. His writing and translation have appeared in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Asymptote, among other places. His debut novel, The Immortals of Tehran, was published in 2020 and has since been translated into Dutch and Arabic.

Among Araghi’s translations of contemporary Iranian poetry is Allahverdi’s ConQuest and I Am a Face Sympathizing with Your Grief. Araghi earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in Comparative Literature, International Writers Track, at Washington University in St. Louis.

As a part of his PhD dissertation, Araghi created Persian, Translated, a database of Persian literature in English. This online resource collects granular metadata of literature translated into English with a focus on modern Iranian literature. He teaches fiction at Penn State.