Habib Ahmadzadeh

Habib Ahmadzadeh is an Iranian author novelist and scriptwriter, born in 1963 in Abadan. The Iran–Iraq War features heavily in his work, with observations of human existence and human interactions in wartime informed by his own wartime service. During the war, he rose from being a teenage volunteer Basiji militiaman to becoming a captain in the regular army.

He earned a BA in Dramatic Literature from Tehran Art University and a Ph.D. in Art Research from Tarbiat Modares University.

Career In 1998, he began his career in cinema as a script editor with Ebrahim Hatamikia at The Glass Agency, and in 2007, he received the Iranian House of Cinema award for best screenplay for The Night Bus. He has filmed a number of documentaries over his career, the most recent of which, The Outstanding Statue in the World, earned the Tehran Cinema Verite Festival prize for best documentary in 2012. Habib Ahmadzadeh has also been an influential youth advocate in Iran.

Works A City Under Siege: Tales of the Iran–Iraq War(Bibliotheca Iranica Persian Fiction in Translation Series), 2010 Chess with the Doomsday Machine, 2008

Awards and recognition Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards,2020; Forty Years of Sacred Defense Fiction, a category intended to recognize the authors of the most important war stories written during the last four decades. Iranian House of Cinema Award Tehran Cinema Verite Festival prize for best documentary, 2012 Jury Fajr International Film Festival, 2018