Ashk Peter Dahlén (born 3 June 1972 in Tafresh, Iran)[1] is a Swedish scholar, linguist, Iranologist, translator, and associate professor (docent) in Persian language at Uppsala University.

Ashk Dahlén was adopted at 7 months of age by a Swedish couple after having been living at an orphanage in Narmak, north-east Tehran, Iran.

His life story provided inspiration, though fictional, for the IRIB3 Television drama series The Green Journey (Persian: سفر سبز, 2002) directed by Mohammad Hossein Latifi, in which the main character, a young adoptee played by Parsa Pirouzfar, travels to Iran in search for his birth parents.

In 2001, he published his first work of translation in Swedish, Vassflöjtens sång, consisting of a selection of poetry written by the Medieval Persian poet Rumi.

He has published literary translations of the Divān of Hafez, Chahār maqāla (Four Discourses) of Nizami Aruzi, and Lama'āt (Flashes) of Fakhr od-din Araqi.