Sanam Mahloudji is a writer from Los Angeles and Iran, living in London.

Her debut novel THE PERSIANS will be released on January 30, 2025 in the UK (Fourth Estate) and March 4, 2025 in the US (Scribner). PRE-ORDER NOW! Everywhere books are sold…Click here for a few ideas for the US, and for the UK.

Read about THE PERSIANS more here. Including some truly wonderful advance praise.

Also in translation in Germany (Piper), the Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Hungary (Europa), Croatia (Fraktura) and Romania (Polirom).

Sanam won a Pushcart Prize for her story “Slut Days” first published in the Idaho Review. The story was reprinted in the 2023 Pushcart anthology and distributed by W.W. Norton. Sanam’s fiction also appears in the Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Passages North and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Sanam is represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Associates.