Aziz Motazedi

{{Short description|Iranian novelist and essayist}}

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Aziz Motazedi ({{langx|fa|عزیز معتضدی}}, born August 10, 1950, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian novelist and essayist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/iran-revolution-for-the-hereafter |title=Iran: Revolution for the hereafter |first=Aziz |last=Motazedi |date=25 August 2009 |website=openDemocracy |access-date=7 February 2011 |archive-date=14 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000132/http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/iran-revolution-for-the-hereafter |url-status=live }} He has lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics and the literary and intellectual discourses of his original country and elsewhere.{{Cite web |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-hayes/iran-from-protest-to-politics |title=Iran: From protest to politics |first=David |last=Hayes |date=19 February 2010 |website=openDemocracy |access-date=7 February 2011 |archive-date=8 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208151617/http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-hayes/iran-from-protest-to-politics |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://news.gooya.eu/culture/archives/045864.php |title=وزیر سابق ارشاد، کافکا، و جایزه نوبل، عزیز معتضدی |language=Persian |trans-title=Former Minister Of Guidance, Kafka, and Nobel Prize winner, Aziz Motazedi |website=news.gooya.eu |access-date=2011-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719160438/http://news.gooya.eu/culture/archives/045864.php |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/2010/11/101119_l41_book_tolstoy_anniversary.shtml |title=تولستوی؛ کالبدشناسی یک نبوغ |language=Persian |trans-title=Tolstoy; Anatomy of a genius |date=19 November 2010 |website=BBC |access-date=7 February 2011 |archive-date=24 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124142741/http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/2010/11/101119_l41_book_tolstoy_anniversary.shtml |url-status=live }} His novel Scheherazade was subject to an official ban with a possibility to be published after heavy censorship by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, but was finally published, in full, with several years delay in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.