Pegah Ahmadi, born in Iran in 1974, studied Persian language and literature and is a poet, translator and literary critic. She is a member of the Iranian Writers' Union, is one of the best-known faces on the Iranian poetry scene and has published ten books to date.
At the invitation of ICORN, Pegah Ahmadi came to Frankfurt in 2009, where she was able to write and live free of censorship for the first time.
Her volume of poetry was created under the impression of the summer of 2009 I wasn't cold (Sardam Nabud), which was first published in Farsi and then in German by Bremer Sujet Verlag.
After her stay in Frankfurt, she spent a year as a guest poet at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
In 2009, Ahmadi was nominated for the prize for the best lyrical work offered by the Association of Iranian Press Reviewers and in 2013 for the Heidelberg Hilde Domin Prize for literature in exile. In the same year she received the Khorschid Prize for Iranian poets in Iran. Pegah Ahmadi currently lives in Cologne. force is her latest work.