Hossein was born in 1963 in Qasr-e Shirin, Iran. He completed his university studies in clinical psychology. His youth in Iran unfolded during the tense social and cultural climate that followed the revolution, experiences that later shaped the critical and social perspective found in his writings. During these years he developed a strong interest in literature, journalism, and the study of the human mind, interests that gradually defined the direction of his literary and cultural activities.

 

In the 1990s, Nooshazar emigrated to Germany. During the early years of his migration he worked for some time in psychotherapy and psychosomatic nursing. Life in exile and distance from Iran’s cultural environment became decisive experiences that shaped the themes of his writing. Together with Behrooz Sheida and Abbas Safaari, he founded the independent literary magazine Sang outside Iran, a publication that became an important platform for Persian literature in exile and provided space for independent writers to publish their work.

 

Hossein Nooshazar has been active in fiction writing, translation, and journalism. His stories often approach themes such as loneliness, migration, identity, gender, and repression through social and psychoanalytic perspectives. His prose is simple yet layered with irony, sometimes tinged with humour, and attentive to the psychological details of his characters. Among his story collections and works are No Longer Alone, No Longer Enduring, A Sunny Day, The Travelers, His Shadow Will No Longer Darken the Earth, Letters of a Crocodile to His Double, At the Relatives’ Table, and The Foreign Tenant. He has also translated several works by American writers into Farsi.

 

Nooshazar is considered one of the notable voices of Persian literature in exile. In recent years he has collaborated with Shahriar Mandanipour and publishes the digital literary magazine Baang, which focuses on literature of exile, censorship, and the writings of Iranian minority voices. His works and cultural activities reflect the lived experience of displacement and the social concerns of a writer who continues to work in literature, translation, and journalism. He recently relocated to France.