Pouria Alami

ABOUT POURIA ALAMI

Iranian children's author and political satirist. He is the founder and CEO of two platforms, iGhe3 and Radio Gousheh. iGhe3 is a mobile-based platform used to produce children's stories in the Persian language. He is popular on Instagram and has over 140,000 followers.

After graduating from high school he worked as a librarian at the public library of Shahryar. He started working at the political satire magazine Gol-Agha
around the same time. He was the editor in chief of cultural programs at Radio Tehran until 2009.

He has written fiction, poetry, and journalism. His novel The Window Dies Sooner was nominated for the Hooshang Golshiri Prize. He was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and imprisoned for 32 days from February to March 2013.

He was born in Tehran, Iran. He is married to a woman named Zahra Omrani. They have a daughter named Nila.

He and Nikahang Kowsar both worked as political satirists at Gol-Agha.