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 Armenians and her father is of Russian background.[1] 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.[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.
- 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.[4]
Zoya Pirzad's works have also been translated into German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Greek, published in those countries.
See also
References
- ↑ "RFI - زویا پیرزاد برندۀ جایزه ادبی "کوریه انترناسیونال"". Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ↑ Iran Daily - Panorama - 07/11/05 Archived October 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "The 2002 Golshiri Awards". Golshiri Foundation. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.zulma.fr