Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh (Dari Persian: محمد آصف سلطان‌زاده) was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1964 and moved to Pakistan. Then in 1985, he moved to Iran and then in 2002, he moved to Denmark. He is a writer specialising in prose and drama. He writes primarily in Dari Persian. "Discovered by the Iranian writer and critic Hushang Golshiri, he has published his short stories in various literary journals. When his book Dar Goriz Gom Mishawim (English: We Disappear in Flight) was published in Tehran in 2000, he became famous among experts of literature in the Persian language (one of the literary languages of Afghanistan). The volume includes 8 stories. In Iran a second volume of his short stories is being published." His two collections of short stories, We Disappear in Flight and The Deserter won the prestigious Golshiri Award in Iran in 2001. Soltanzadeh's short story Dotai pashe (A Pair of Clubs) from We Disappear in Flight has been translated from Dari Persian into Polish by Ivonna Nowicka.

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Collections of Short stories

His most recent collections of stories, in Persian, are:

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