Sepideh Shamlou (in

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: سپیده شاملو) is an Iranian award-winner writer. She has written several novels in

. She was born in 1968 in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. She obtained a BS in English. Sepideh Shamlou started off writing film pieces, but with the release of ''It was as if you had said that Lily'', she then became a novelist. She was among the many female authors who started writing in the 1990s onwards. Her novel titled ''As you had told Leyli'' was awarded a

Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award The Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award is an Iranian literary award notable for being one of the few literary awards in Iran that is run by a non-governmental organization. Established in 2000, the award is sponsored by the non-profit Golshiri Found ...

for Best First Novel in 2000. She was interviewed by ''Haft'' magazine in 2006 on her novel. She was also interviewed by ''Etemaad'' newspaper in 2007.

Books

*''As you had told Leyli'', 2011 (first published in 2000) (novel) *''Your redness from me'', 2006 (novel) *''Red glove'' (collection of short stories)

Awards and recognition

* 2000

Hooshang Golshiri Literary Awards The Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award is an Iranian literary award notable for being one of the few literary awards in Iran that is run by a non-governmental organization. Established in 2000, the award is sponsored by the non-profit Golshiri Found ...

, Best First Novel, ''As if You Had Said Leyli'' * Sepideh Shamlou was a judge for the 7th

Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel '' The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their care ...

Literary Award in 2009.

References

Sources

گفتگو با سپیده شاملو

External links

انگار گفته بودي ليلي – سپيده شاملو
1968 births Living people Iranian writers Iranian women short story writers {{Iran-writer-stub