Jila Mossaed Estakhri (Persian: ژیلا مساعد استخری; born 4 April 1948) is a Swedish writer.
[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.