Jila Mossaed Estakhri (Persian: ژیلا مساعد استخری; born 4 April 1948) is a Swedish writer. Born in Tehran, Iran, she was named a new member of the Swedish Academy on 4 October 2018, and was formally inducted into the Academy on 20 December 2018.^[1][2][3]

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Jila Mossaed
Born	(1948-04-04) 4 April 1948 (age 76) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation(s)	writer and poet
Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 15)
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2018
Preceded by	Kerstin Ekman

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Mossaed has lived in Sweden in exile from Iran since 1986. She resides in Gothenburg, and writes in both Swedish and Persian.^[4] On 5 October 2018, Mossaed was named a new member of the Swedish Academy together with Supreme Court justice Eric M. Runesson. She replaced author Kerstin Ekman, who ended her involvement with the Academy in 1989 over its handling of the Rushdie affair (and formally resigned in 2018), on seat 15.^[5]

Mossaed's poetry has been translated into Dutch, English, French, and Greek.^[6] In 2020, Mossaed received the Prix Vénus Khoury-Ghata^[7] and in 2022 she received the Prix Max-Jacob [fr] for Le huitième pays (Det åttonde landet), translated by Françoise Sule.^[8]