The Life That Is Not Happening

Seyed Mohammad Momeni

Mani Momeni was born in 1977 in Tonekabon, Iran, a city located between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz Mountains. He is a poet, translator, and researcher who has published two poetry collections - Bright Nights and Lost Text Messages - and translated three novels into Farsi, including Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Some of his poems have also been published in the volume Toward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures: Challenges and Opportunities. He moved to Finland in 2016 and is now a doctoral researcher at the University of Turku, where he investigates literature education and reader engagement. His writing explores impossible loves, absent presences, time travel, and the spaces between languages and cultures. He is a poet-author, meaning that he tells stories through poetic language. He believes that a city without a poet is in a bad mood. The Life That Is Not Happening is his debut novella.