Habib Ahmadzadeh is an

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and

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, born in 1963 in Abadan. The

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations S ...

features heavily in his work, with observations of human existence and human interactions in wartime informed by his own wartime service. During the war, he rose from being a teenage volunteer

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militiaman to becoming a captain in the regular army. He earned a BA in Dramatic Literature from Tehran Art University and a Ph.D. in Art Research from Tarbiat Modares University.

Career

In 1998, he began his career in cinema as a script editor with

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The Glass Agency ''The Glass Agency'' ( fa, آژانس شیشه‌ای) is a 1998 Iranian drama film written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, and one of his most successful works and one of the most popular and controversial films of post-revolutionary Iranian ...

, and in 2007, he received the Iranian House of Cinema award for best screenplay for ''The Night Bus''. He has filmed a number of documentaries over his career, the most recent of which, ''The Outstanding Statue in the World'', earned the Tehran Cinema Verite Festival prize for best documentary in 2012. Habib Ahmadzadeh has also been an influential youth advocate in Iran.

Works

* '' A City Under Siege: Tales of the Iran–Iraq War''(Bibliotheca Iranica Persian Fiction in Translation Series), 2010 *

Chess with the Doomsday Machine ''Chess with the Doomsday Machine'' (''Shatranj ba Mashin-e Qiamat'') ( fa, شطرنج با ماشین قیامت) is a novel about the Iran-Iraq war by Habib Ahmadzadeh. In 1980, an attack on the Iranian city of Abadan marked the beginning of th ...

, 2008 * *

Awards and recognition

* Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards,2020; ''Forty Years of Sacred Defense Fiction'', a category intended to recognize the authors of the most important war stories written during the last four decades. * ''Iranian House of Cinema Award'' * ''Tehran Cinema Verite Festival'' prize for best documentary, 2012 * Jury

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, 2018

References

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