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Shida Bazyar

Shida Bazyar’s debut novel Nachts ist es leise in Teheran has won several awards and been translated into Dutch, Farsi, French and Turkish. Her second novel, Sisters in Arms, won the Ernst Toller Award and was nominated for the German Book Prize. Photograph © Tabea Treichel

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Fiction | Issue 165 padlock
Fiction | Issue 165 padlock

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Shida Bazyar

‘Are you talking as Laleh now, or as the Islamic Republic of Iran? I don’t say anything.’

Fiction by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin.

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