Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (Persian: زویا پیرزاد) (born 1952 in Abadan) is an Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. Her mother is Iranian-Armenian and her father is Azeri. She has grown up in Tehran. She is married and has two sons Sasha and Shervin.
Works
Pirzad's first novel, Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam (I Will Turn Off the Lights; published in English as Things We Left Unsaid) has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages.[1]
Awards
She won the Hooshang Golshiri Literary 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]
Books
- Things We Left Unsaid (Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam), tr. Franklin Lewis, London: Oneworld, 2012.
- One Day Till Easter (Yek ruz mandeh beh eid-e pak)
- The Acrid Taste of Persimmon (Ta'am gass khormalu)
- Like Every Evening (Mesl-e hameh asr-ha)
- We Will Get Used to It (Adat mikonim)
All the books mentioned above have been translated into French and published by Zulma Publishers in Paris.[3]
Zoya Pirzad's works have also been translated into German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Greek, published in those countries.
See also
- Persian literature
- List of famous Persian women
Notes
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