Sahar Delijani is an Iranian American writer and activist. She is the author of the 2013 novel Children of the Jacaranda Tree, which was translated into 32 languages and published in more than 75 countries. Her second novel, For Every Person You Kill, is due to be published in 2027. Both novels deal with the Iranian dissident experience. She is also a regular contributor to various magazines and journals.
Born in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, Sahar is the child of secular leftist revolutionaries who were arbitrarily detained as political prisoners in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution, or rather counterrevolution, of 1979. She grew up in Iran, eventually leaving for the US and Italy. She now lives in New York City. You can find out more about her on her website, here, and follow her on Instagram, here.
In this interview, we discuss Sahar’s life and work, including what it is like to be a dissident in a fractured world and her views on Iran, Palestine, and anti-imperialism.
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