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Shirin Nezammafi

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Shirin Nezammafi

Shirin Nezammafi is an Iranian writer who writes in Japanese, although her native language is Farsi. Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1979, she moved to Japan as a young adult. Her debut novel Salam won the Ryugakusei-Bungakusho award in 2006. Nezammafi was the second non-Japanese writer (and the first from a country whose language does not use Chinese characters) to win the Bungakukai Shinjinsho Award, which she received in 2009 for her second novel White Paper. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2009 and 2010. 

Articles by Shirin Nezammafi

Salam
By Shirin Nezammafi
They were the hands of someone who had never heard of hand cream.
Translated from Japanese by Aoi Matsushima