Habib Ahmadzadeh is an Iranian author novelist and scriptwriter, born in 1963 in Abadan. The Iran–Iraq War features heavily in his work, with observations of human existence and human interactions in wartime informed by his own wartime service. During the war he rose from being a teenage volunteer Basiji militiaman to become a captain in the regular army. He earned a BA in Dramatic Literature from Tehran Art University and a PhD in Art Research from Tarbiat Modares University.