Parham Shahrjerdi was born in 1980 in Tehran and lives in Paris. He is the author of L'Odyssée de Bâmdâd (Caravan, 2003, 2nd edn 2009), Passé composé de ma mort (Rapport d'Étape, 2006), and Risquer la poésie/Risk of Poetry (Poetrypub.info, 2009). He is also the founder of the website Espace Maurice Blanchot and of the multilingual review Poetrymag . As a translator, he has published (in French) a collection of poems by Y. Royâï entitled Le Passé en je: signature (Caravan, 2003) and (in Persian) Blanchot's La Folie du jour (Vistâr, 2007). His most recent publications include 'La Langue du survivant, la langue survécue' (Crosswords/Mots croisés, September 2008) and 'Comment Blanchot serait-il possible?', in Blanchot dans son siècle (Parangon, 2009), a collection of essays on Blanchot which he co-edited. He is also the editor of a number of (censored) works in contemporary Iranian literature and of Persian translations of works by Baudrillard, Butler, Deleuze, and Bataille. As a photographer, he is working on La Photo à venir.