Akbar Sahraei

Akbar Sahraee (Persian: اکبر صحرایی‎; born in 1960) is an Iranian humorist, and author. He is variously a novelist and playwright. The Iran–Iraq War features heavily in his works.

Akbar Sahraee born on 1339 A.P in Shiraz. He wrote many humorous stories for the theater and many of them became publicly famous. Sahraee begins to write in 1986 when he was 26 years old. His teacher in writing is Shahriar Mandanipour. He studied management at university. He volunteered to join the front during the Iran–Iraq War.

• The puzzle of the fish canal
• If Only I Were a Bit Older

Both of the books translated into English bySofia Koutlaki.

• Hafeze Haft
• Ana still laugh
• Javidi Hill And the Secret of Eshlow

Sahraee was one of the writers chosen by the Institute of Iran’s Cultural Fairs to attend the book fair in Frankfurt. The institute had also provided a booklet and a CD of Akbar Sahraee’ works to be showcased at the book fair. He has also won many national awards which include Honorary diploma, Hedayat's literary award in 2003,the first literary Award of Esfehan in 2003.

Sahraee won the 2012 Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award for writing Hafez Seven novel.

• Year Book of Press Association of Sacred Defense
• Golden Pen Award of Iran
• The second literary award of Isfahan in 2004