Shokoofeh Azar Shokoofeh Azar i(6195653 works by)
Born: Established: 1972
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Iran,
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Middle East, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: ca. 2011
Heritage: Iranian
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1 The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen Shokoofeh Azar , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Summer no. 5 2023;
1 Why Iranians Continue to Seek Refuge in Australia Shokoofeh Azar , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: World Literature Today , Summer vol. 94 no. 3 2020; (p. 38-43)

'Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2010. Her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, originally written in Farsi, was shortlisted for Australia's 2018 Stella Prize for Fiction and the 2020 International Booker Prize. Here she recalls her refugee journey from Iran to Christmas Island and reveals why Iranians continue migrating to Australia, despite the absence of war.' (Introduction)
11 10 y separately published work icon The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar , 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)
1 The Woman Who Went to Stand There Shokoofeh Azar , Rebecca Stengel (translator), 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 18-24)
1 The River Woman Shokoofeh Azar , Rebecca Stengel (translator), 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 237-243)
1 That’s What Its Name Is: Forget-Me-Not Shokoofeh Azar , Rebecca Stengel (translator), 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 232-236) Editor's Desk - 2017 2017;
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