EA learns that the first political novel about the Green Movement and the post-election crisis has been published. Blogger and journalist Masih Alinejad, whose work has been featured on our pages, has written The Green Date, the story of a female correspondent who return to Iran to cover the 2009 Presidential campaign.
Alinejad had to leave Iran after the election and now lives abroad.
The publisher Gardoon, based in Berlin, is bringing out the novel in Persian, with plans for translation into German and English. It will not be published in Tehran: Gardoon's Abbas Maroufi says, “The books we are publishing abroad are trees we plant in the hope that they can be taken to Iran one day.”
The cover of the book features a sketch by the famous Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani.