Mehdi Mousavi speaks about his life and work as a literary activist in Iran at Lillestrøm Kulturkonferanse 2026.
As part of the conference section Art, Culture & Borders, poet and writer Mehdi Mousavi speaks about his life and work as a literary activist in Iran.
Mousavi was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison and 99 lashes. He escaped Iran in 2015 and has lived in Lillehammer since arriving in Norway through the Cities of Refuge network in 2017.
Poet, writer and literary activist
A bilingual Persian–English collection exploring resistance, imprisonment, protest, ordinary life and exile.
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Kirkegata 11
Lillestrøm
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