Mana Aghaee


Mana Aghaee in Bushehr, Iran, is a distinguished Persian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian Studies. Since 1987 Mana Aghaee lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the daughter of the Iranian scholar and poet Shirzad Aghaee. She has a M.A. degree in Iranian languages from Uppsala University, Sweden, and is a specialist in modern Persian literature.
She regularly contributes to Persian literary journals and magazines inside and outside of Iran. Her poems have also been translated into several languages, among them, English, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic and German.
Aghaee was the founder and co-producer of Sherophone, the first biweekly podcast of Persian poetry in 2010.
She is married to Ashk Dahlén, Swedish scholar and translator of Persian literature, since 1994.

Published works

Collections of poetry
Aghaee's work can be found in the following anthologies:
Literary Translations
Bibliographical Works
Academic Articles