Zoya Pirzad
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Zoya Pirzad (born 1952 in Abadan) is a renowned Iran
ian-Armenian
writer and novelist.
Pirzad's first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" (Cheragh-ha ra Man Khamush Mikonam) has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages. 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".
Like All Evenings and We will get used to it are translated into French and published by Zulma Publishers in Paris
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian-Armenian
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
writer and novelist.
Pirzad's first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" (Cheragh-ha ra Man Khamush Mikonam) has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages. She won Houshang Golshiri
Houshang Golshiri
Houshang Golshiri was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
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".
Books
- Like All Evenings (Mesl-e hameh asr-ha)
- One Day Before Easter (Yek ruz mandeh beh eid-e pak)
- The Acrid Taste of Persimmon (Ta'am gass khormalu)
- I Turn Off the Lights (Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam)
- We will get used to It (Adat mikonim)
Like All Evenings and We will get used to it are translated into French and published by Zulma Publishers in Paris
See also
- Persian literaturePersian literaturePersian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
- List of famous Persian women