Zoya Pirzad

Zoya Pirzad (Persian: زویا پیرزاد‎) (born 1952 in Abadan) is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist.

Pirzad's first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" (Cheragh-ha ra Man Khamush Mikonam) has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages. She won Houshang Golshiri 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".

Books

• Like All Evenings (Mesl-e hameh asr-ha)
• One Day Before Easter (Yek ruz mandeh beh eid-e pak)
• The Acrid Taste of Persimmon (Ta'am gass khormalu)
• I Turn Off the Lights (Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam)
• 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

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

See also

• Persian literature
• List of famous Persian women