Books By Golnoosh Nour - Author

Golnoosh Nour is a published poet, prose writer, and lecturer. Born in Tehran in 1988, she studied for a BA in English Literature at Shahid Beheshti University after which she moved to London to do an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. In 2017, her debut poetry collection Sorrows of the Sun was published under her then pseudonym, Sogol Sur. Her short story collection The Ministry of Guidance and Other Stories was published on the 2nd of April 2020 by Muswell Press. Her writing has been anthologised in internationally recognised publications such as Granta. She has performed in numerous literary events across the UK and internationally, including The Shuffle at the Poetry Café, Stoke Newington Literature Festival, The Fringe! Festival, SOAS, RVT, Birkbeck Poetry Live for Arts Week, In Yer Ear, Literary Kitchen Festival, Tate South Lambeth Library, and the UCL Art Society. She has appeared in the BBC Cultural Frontline and Woman's Hour to discuss her work. Since May 2020, Golnoosh has been hosting and d