NMohammadi took Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale I'm in jail. The activist was sentenced to 16 years for challenging Iran's enforcement of what Mohammadi described as gender apartheid—a system of dress codes, gender subordination, and coercive control enforced, as in Atwood's book, by men who seized power as a theocracy.
Mohammadi was still in prison when he won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. But in December, after the operation, the Iranian authorities allowed him to return home on a three-week medical leave. Mohammadi, 52, took full advantage of his freedom, eventually speaking (and singing) to the Nobel committee, giving interviews, posting on social media from the fence of Zanjan Central Prison—and reaching out, through PEN America, to Atwood.
On December 18, TIME and a translator caught the Canadian author, 85, on a video call with Mohammadi. One woman wrote a letter. This one lived in it.
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