Following is a list of Iranian writers (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their work.

Persian literature of the 21st century

• Ali Abdolrezaei • Houshang Asadi • Esmail Khoi • Ebrahim Nabavi • Noureddin Zarrinkelk

Persian literature of the 20th century

• Ali Abdolrezaei • Ali Mohammad Afghani • Jalal Al-e-Ahmad • Bozorg Alavi • Ghazaleh Alizadeh • Mahshid Amirshahi • Mina Assadi • Mansoor Yaghoti • Manouchehr Atashi • Reza Baraheni • Sadegh Choubak • Simin Daneshvar • Ali-Ashraf Darvishian • Levon Davidian • Mahmoud DowlatAbadi • Karim Emami • Ebrahim Golestan • Houshang Golshiri • Sadegh Hedayat • Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh • Reza Khoshnazar • Ahmad Mahmoud • Shahriyar Mandanipour • Jamal Mirsadeghi • Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi • Javad Mojabi • Mohammad Mokhtari • Aziz Motazedi • Majid Naini • Javad Nurbakhsh • Shahrnush Parsipur • Zoya Pirzad • Hossein Rajabian • Gholam-Hossein Saedi • Parinoush Saniee • Ghadam-Ali Sarami • Abbas Shafiee • Reza Shirmarz

Writers outside Iran

• Ali Abdolrezaei • Mahshid Amirshahi • Mahyar Amouzegar • Daryoush Ashouri • Shokoofeh Azar • Roja Chamankar • Hamid Dabashi • Annahid Dashtgard • Sahar Delijani • Reza Ghassemi • Shusha Guppy • Roya Hakakian • Alireza Jafarzadeh • Amir H. Ladan • Abbas Marufi • Abbas Milani • Melody Moezzi • Aziz Motazedi • Azar Nafisi • Khosro Naghed • Shahrnush Parsipur • Hamid Sadr • Alexios Schandermani • Mahbod Seraji • Reza Shirmarz • Niloufar Talebi • Abbas Tashakkori • Sholeh Wolpé • Elham Yaghoubian • Mehri Yalfani

Contemporary writers

• Ali Abdolrezaei • Colet Abedi • Ahmad Akbarpour • Yousef Alikhani • Reza Amirkhani • Sahar Delijani • Ahmad Beiranvand • Mohammad Hanif • Peyman Hooshmandzadeh • Arash Hejazi • Mostafa Mastoor • Sadegh Karamyar • Hamid Rashidi • Nazi Safavi • Hossein Sanapour • Sepideh Shamlou