Zoya Pirzad

Zoya Pirzad (Persian: زویا پیرزاد‎; Armenian: Զոյա Փիրզադ; born 1952 in Abadan) is an Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. Her mother is Iranian Armenian and her father comes from a Russian background.[1] She grew up in Tehran and is now married with 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.[2]

Awards

I Will Turn Off the Lights won the 2002 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".[3]

Zoya Pirzad has become the latest Iranian figure to receive France’s Chevalier of Legion of Honor award.

Books

  • Things We Left Unsaid (Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam), tr. Franklin Lewis, London: Oneworld, 2012.
  • The Space Between Us (Yek ruz mandeh beh eid-e pak), tr. Amy Motlagh, London: Oneworld, 2014.
  • 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.[4]

Zoya Pirzad's works have also been translated into German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Greek, published in those countries.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RFI - زویا پیرزاد برندۀ جایزه ادبی "کوریه انترناسیونال"". Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Iran Daily - Panorama - 07/11/05 Archived October 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "The 2002 Golshiri Awards". Golshiri Foundation. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.zulma.fr


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