Shahla Lahiji

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Shahla Lahiji (born 1942) (Persian: شهلا لاهیجی‎ ) is an Iranian (Persian) writer, publisher, translator, and director of Roshangaran, a prominent publishing house of books on women's issues.

Lahiji was one of 19 writers and intellectuals prosecuted for participating in an academic and cultural conference sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Institute in Berlin on April 7 through 9, 2000 at which political and social reform in Iran were publicly debated.

[edit] Honours and Awards

• 2001 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
• 2006 IPA Publishers' Freedom Prize

[edit] See also

• Shirin Ebadi
• Mehrangiz Kar
• Shahla Sherkat