Zoya Pirzad

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Zoya Pirzad (born 1952 in Abadan) is a renowned Iranian writer and novelist.

Her first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages.[1] She won Houshang Golshiri award for The Best Novel of the Year, for her superb characterization, ingenious representation of the conflicting emotions of a woman, creating suspense through defamiliarization of everyday life, creating a language in perfect harmony with the theme and characters of the novel.[2]

[edit] Books

  • Like All Evenings
  • One Day Before Easter
  • The Acrid Taste of Persimmon.
  • I Turn Off the Lights
  • We will get used to It

Like All Evenings and We will get used to it are translated into French and published by Zulma Publishers in Paris [3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Iran Daily - Panorama - 07/11/05
  2. ^ Award
  3. ^ www.zulma.com

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