Iranian Writer Aliyeh Ataei: “I Write About Violence Cold because I Grew up in It”

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“When you have seen from a young age that one human being can kill another, you may no longer feel anything in the face of death.” The phrase belongs to The Border of the Forgotten (Editorial of Conatus, 2025), the novel recently translated into the Spanish of the Iranian writer Aliyeh Ataei (Zahedan, Iran, 44 years old) in which it condenses the invisible scars that allowed her to be raised in a territory where the lines are blurred and where v…