Ali Askari
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Ali Askari performing spoken word at a microphone, black and white
Voice & Narration

Stories, read aloud.

Audiobooks, broadcast narration, spoken word and poetry.

Listen

Recorded excerpts.

Taken from the recordings and promotional material released by the publishers. Levels have been matched so the five can be played in a row.

Audiobooks

Recorded literature.

Novels and short story collections recorded as narrator and voice actor. Where a publisher or translator is documented it is credited.

  • A Farewell to Arms

    وداع با اسلحه Ernest Hemingway Narrator Listen

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    بار هستی Milan Kundera Narrator

  • Talkh Kam

    تلخ‌کام Esmail Fasih Narrator Novin Ketab Gooya Listen

  • The First Phone Call from Heaven

    اولین تماس تلفنی از بهشت Mitch Albom Narrator Translated by Mehrayin Okhovvat · Novin Ketab Gooya Listen

  • The Wrong People

    آدم‌های اشتباهی Shiva Moghanlou Narrator, with Tina Mirkarimi Short stories · Novin Ketab Gooya · 1397 (2018) Listen

  • The Cat Is Grass, the Fish Is a Tree

    گربه علف است، ماهی درخت Narrator Short stories

  • Gone with the Wind

    بر باد رفته Margaret Mitchell Narrator
Broadcast narration

Reading for the newsroom.

Beyond literature, Askari has worked as a voice-over narrator for IRIB News programming, and as narrator, writer and editor across radio networks including Farhang, Iran, Tejarat (Eghtesad), Goftogoo and Salamat.

Radio & television work
Reading for the newsroom.
Spoken word

Performance to camera.

Short pieces built around a single voice.

Kissing the Forehead Before Death

Kissing the Forehead Before Death

A spoken-word piece performed to camera.

Monologue

Monologue

A single take, held close.

In the studio

In the studio

Recording The Wrong People with Tina Mirkarimi at Novin Ketab Gooya.

Writing

Poetry.

Askari also writes. In 2015 the cinema photographer Babak Borzouyeh, who has since died, published one of his poems and announced a joint exhibition of photographs and verse.

The Restless Poem

شعرم
بلوا می‌کند
قبل آمدن!
می‌داند
از چه خواهم گفت
My poem
riots
before it arrives.
It knows
what I am going to say.

Ali Askari

With Babak Borzouyeh, 2015.
With Babak Borzouyeh, 2015.
Collaboration

A voice for the next recording.

For narration, voice acting, audiobook and other recording work, send a short outline of the project.

info@aliaskari.net