Amir HAssan Cheheltan
Biography
Amir Hassan Cheheltan was born in Tehran in 1956. He studied electrical engineering in Great Britain and Iran and is now considered one of the best-known authors and essayists there. Cheheltan began writing short stories while still at school, and this is his first published work Sigeh (Temporary Wife), a collection of stories from 1976. Dakhil bar panjereh-ye fulād (Relic-cloth on the Shrine’s Steel Grillwork), another collection of short stories, gave him his breakthrough as an author. His first novel Rowdeh-ye Qāsem (The Requiem of Qasem; Tehran: Nashr‐e Now, 1984) was banned by the Iranian state without explanation, but was later published as a limited edition.
His works include twelve novels that have been translated into several languages, seven short story collections, and numerous essays.
After completing his studies, Cheheltan returned to Iran, where he now lives after several stays abroad.
Last Released
Tehran, apocalypse
Tehran at the end of time
The historical novel "Tehran, Apocalypse" by Amir Hassan Cheheltan describes in six episodes important happenings and events of contemporary Iranian history. The novel begins with the murder of Robert Whitney Imbrie, Vice Consul at the American Embassy and agent of the Sinclair Oil Company, on a hot summer's day in 1924. A group of ordinary people in the alleys and bazaars are suspected of being the instigators when Reza Shah ( founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the Shah of Iran) takes office. The story ends in the hot summer of 1988 with the execution of one of the novel's main characters in this massacre.
This work is published for the first time in Persian by Sujet Verlag and Goethe & Hafis Verlag published in Germany.
