Hosain Sanapour
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| Born | 1960 Tehran, Iran  |
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| Occupation | writer. |
Hosain Sanapour (Persian: حسین سناپور) is a Persian writer.
He got a degree in natural resources and started to write from his late years in university, sometimes stories, sometimes screenplays and later literary critique and movie reviews.
He has been active in journalism since 1993, writing on literature and arts and in 4 different newspapers. Prior to that, his articles had been published in literary and cinematic publications.
His first and second books were long novels for teenagers: “the Village Boys” and “Afsane and long night”. He had been present, since 1990, in Hooshang Golshiri’s classes and then sessions, which, allegedly, were effective on his learning of writing techniques. In 1999 “Absent half” was published by Cheshme publication house that was first awarded Mehregan Award (by Peka Institue) and then co-awarded the Yalda Award (the novel has been published 12 times). Then another novel “You are coming ruin” was then published and was nominated for a few awards. In year 2004 and 2005 the story collections titled “With open guard” and “dark side of words” was published, also by Cheshme publication house. “Dark side of open words” won the award for best collection from Golshiri foundation. “With open guard” was also nominated for several awards, but didn’t win any of them. He also published a collection of articles on novel-writing in 2003.
He has written another story called “Lips on a Blade” that is barred from publication by the government for nearly 2 years now.
He also compiled a book on Golshiri titled “Hamkhanie Kateban”. He has been giving lectures on story writing in recent years.
