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It Snows In This House - A Booktalk

Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion Booktalk - It Snows In This House
November 3, 2022
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
main campus / 165 Thompson Library

5:00-6:00pm  (English) / 6:00-7:00pm  (Persian) /  FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC    

It Snows In This House by Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion / Booktalk

 Hamed Esmaeilion was born in 1977 in
Kermanshah, Iran. He studied dentistry and in
2001 he married Parisa, his classmate. They
immigrated to Canada in 2010 with their daughter
Reera. While in Iran, Hamed published four novels 
that earned him several awards from the top
Iranian literary circles including Thyme is not
Pretty
(2009) and Dr. Datis (2012) won the
Hooshang Golshiri awards, and Gamasyab has No
Fish
(2014) critically acclaimed. After being blacklisted  
by the Islamic Culture and Guidance Ministry, Hamed published his next novel The Blue Toukan (2018) by Nashre-e Mehri in the United Kingdom.

 Hamed lost his wife and daughter on flight PS752 that was shot down by IRGC missiles over the skies of Tehran on January 8, 2020. He recently published his memories with his wife and daughter in a book titled It Snows in This House. He also completed and published two novels “The Fractured Diaries of the Chancellor” and “The Summer with Five Bullets”.