• Donate
    • Search form

Home
  • About
  • Cities of Refuge
  • Writers/artists
  • News
  • Resources
  • Get involved
  • Contact
Menu

Babak Salimizadeh

Writer, poet, translator

Babak Salimizadeh (1984) is a distinguished writer and poet, translator and social theorist. He is the chief editor of Mindmotor Magazine, which has been dealing with critical theory, art and literature since 2007. He is also a member of the editorial board of Iranian Sexuality Studies Group (ISSG) since 2011.

Salimizadeh is known for his performances in the field of poetry and art as well as writings and cultural activism, which tackle the themes of queer theory, literature, aesthetics and politics. He has organized and written for many underground magazines in Iran including: Zoghal magazine (2004-present), a vehicle for the creation and dissemination of protest art in Iran; Artcult magazine (2006-2008), the cultural-artistic organ of leftist student movements in Iran; In addition, he was a strategist for Parallel Academy – a movement organized by students and academics to fight state repression of the human sciences (2009).

A published author and translator, Salimizadeh has an author association contract with Swedish-based, Iran Open Publishing Group. His works include: Armed Art (Sweden, 2008) the audio-performance piece Kâheshe âniye toul (Sweden, 2008). His banned poetry collection Cookery instruction in family circle published by Mindmotor, 2009. Salimizadeh has also translated into Persian many seminal works by Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Jacques Ranciere, Monique Wittig; etc.

Salimizadeh holds a Master of Art Research from Payame Nour University of Tehran. He ranked 5th and got accepted for PhD program in Tehran University of Art, but the Iranian Government made it impossible for Babak Salimizadeh to continue his education in the higher level and after a number of threats and interrogations as a result of his writings, he fled Iran and left for Turkey in 2013. He arrived in Norrköping city of refuge in January 2015.

Writers from the same country

Ali Dorani/ Mr. Eaten Fish. Photo: Private.

Ali Dorani/ Mr. Eaten Fish

Ali Kalaei. Photo: Hossein Salmanzadeh. Photo.

Ali Kalaei

Amin Ghazaei

Amin Ghazaei

Ammar Tassaei

Ammar Tassaei

Arash Chakeri

Arash Chakeri

Arash Ilkhani.

Arash Ilkhani

Asieh Amini

Asieh Amini

Atefe Asadi

Ayaz Khonsyawashan. Photo: Mette Karlsvik for Bergen Public Library

Ayaz Khonsyawashan

Aziz Sangtarash

Benyamin Farnam. Private photo. Photo.

Benyamin Farnam

Dr. Sedigheh Vasmaghi

Ehsan Abedi

Ehsan Abedi

Elahe Rahroniya. Photo.

Elahe Rahroniya

Emmanuel Shokrian. Private photo. Photo.

Emmanuel Shokrian

Justina. Photo: Amir Asghari

Farima Habashizadehasl / Justina

Photo: private

Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Hossein Heydari

Kosar Fattahi

Kosar Fattahi

Photo: Fredrikstad Kommune

Leila Ghahremani

Photo: private

Mahdieh Golroo

Mahsa Nikan. Photo.

Mahsa Nikan

Mana Neyestani

Mana Neyestani

Theater Director/Screenwriter Mansour Koushan. Photo.

Mansour Koushan (1948-2014)

Marjan Poursharifi Photo: private

Marjan Poursharifi

Photo: Arne Olav Hageberg

Masoud Ghadim Fallah

Photo © Mohammad Sadegh Yarhamidi

Mehdi Mousavi

Mohammad Baharloo. Photo.

Mohammad Baharloo

Mohammad Rahbar

Translator/Poet Mohsen Emadi. Photo.

Mohsen Emadi

Photo by Håvard Wannebo

Moloud Hajizadeh

Poet/Journalist

Naeimeh Doustdar Sanaye

Nama Jafari. Photo: Bente Fagerlund

Nama Jafari

Photo: Arne Olav Hageberg

Nasim Nazari

Nasrin Madani. Photo.

Nasrin Madani

Photo Camilla Norvoll @camillanorvoll on IG

Nikan Khosravi

Omid Shams Gakieh. Photo.

Omid Shams Gakieh

Parvin Ardalan

Parvin Ardalan

Pegāh Ahmadi

Pegāh Ahmadi

Sahar Bayati. Photo.

Sahar Bayati

Sepideh Jodeyri. Photo.

Sepideh Jodeyri

Soudabeh Alishahi. Photo: Information.dk

Soudabeh Alishahi

Scholar and writer Vafa Mehraeen, ICORN Resident in Brussels between 2022-2024. Photo: Private.

Vafa Mehraeen

Photo courtesy of the author

Xebat Rasouli

Babak Salimizadeh. Photo.
Babak Salimizadeh

Writer details

  • Country:
    Iran

Address:

Icorn logo

c/o Sølvberget KF,
Stavanger Cultural Centre
p.o. box: 310 4002 Stavanger
Norway
icorn@icorn.org
Email ICORN

  • About
  • Cities of Refuge
  • Writers/artists
  • News
  • Resources
  • Get involved
  • Contact

Newsletter

Partners
  • Sølvberget
  • Pen
Sponsors
  • Swedish Arts Council
  • The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Fritt Ord

© 2023 icorn.org | Log in

Close

  • About
  • Cities of Refuge
  • Writers/artists
  • News
  • Resources
  • Get involved
  • Contact
  • Donate

Search form