Shokoofeh Azar Shokoofeh Azar i(6195653 works by)
Born: Established: 1972
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Iran,
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Middle East, Asia,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: ca. 2011
Heritage: Iranian
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BiographyHistory

Born in Iran seven years before the revolution, Shokoofeh Azar studied literature at high school and university with the support of her father, an intellectual, poet, author, and artist. After university, she spent fourteen years working on an independent newspapers.

In 2011, Azar and her family were forced to leave Iran, and settled in Perth, Western Australia. In 2018, she was based in Geelong, Victoria.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $30,000.00

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Cheltenham : Wild Dingo Press , 2017 11491879 2017 single work novel

'This book is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. 

'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.' (Publication summary)

2020 longlisted National Book Awards (USA) Translated Literature
2020 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Award for Fiction
2020 longlisted National Book Award for Translated Literature
2020 shortlisted The International Booker Prize
2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
2018 shortlisted The Stella Prize
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