Iranian woman wins Japanese literary prize
Iranian author Shirin Nezammafi has won the 108th Bungakukai Shinjinsho award for a novel she wrote in Japanese:
The 29-year-old Nezammafi’s prizewinning work, titled “Shiroi Kami” (white paper), depicts a romance between two students at the time of the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s.
According to the organizer, Nezammafi, a native of Tehran who has been living in Japan for about nine years, works at a major electronics maker as a system engineer and studied at Kobe University’s graduate school of engineering. She currently resides in Osaka Prefecture.
More information about Nezammafi can be found in this Hiragana Times article.
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