Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (also spelled as Zoyā Pirzād; 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 (Cheraghha ra man khamush mikonam), tr. Franklin Lewis, London: Oneworld, 2012.
- The Space Between Us (Yek ruz mandeh beh eid-e pak 'The day before Easter'), tr. Amy Motlagh, London: Oneworld, 2014.
- The Acrid Taste of Persimmon (Ta'am-e gas-e khormalu)
- Like Every Evening (Mesl-e hame-ye asrha)
- 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, Greek, Italian, Polish, Slovene, Spanish and Turkish, published in those countries. The Polish translation of the short story “Père Lachaise” appeared in the anthology Kolacja cyprysu i ognia. Współczesne opowiadania irańskie (Dinner of the Cypress and Fire. Contemporary Iranian Short Stories) selected and rendered into Polish by Ivonna Nowicka, Warszawa 2003.
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.
- ↑ "Home". zulma.fr.
Further reading
- Voegeli, M. (2015) “Quiet Lives and Looming Horrors – Subversive Narrative Strategies in the Earliest Short Stories of Zōyā Pīrzād,” in Krasnowolska, A. and Rusek-Kowalska, R. (eds) Studies on the Iranian World: Medieval and Modern. Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 107–116.
- Yaghoobi, Claudia. “Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in ‘A Day Before Easter’.” International Journal of Persian Literature, Issue 3. 1 (August 2018): 110-132.
- Yaghoobi, Claudia (2019). "The Fluidity of Iranian-Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad's Things Left Unsaid". International Journal of Persian Literature. 4 (1): 103–120. doi:10.5325/intejperslite.4.0103. S2CID 212966702.