Spôjmaï Raouf Zariâb ( Dari: سپوژمی زریاب ; born 1949, some sources say 1952) is an

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-born short story writer. Her name also appears as Spozhmai Zaryab, and surname appears as Zaryab.

Biography

She was born in Kabul and was educated at Kabul University, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Kabul and at Besançon in France. She married

Rahnaward Zaryab Rahnaward Zaryab ( prs, رهنورد زریاب) full name Muhammad Azam Rahnaward Zaryab (), (August 1944 – 10 December 2020) was novelist, short story writer, and journalist from Afghanistan literary critic/scholar. Biography He was born i ...

, also a writer. During the Russian occupation of her country, she worked as a translator at the French embassy. In 1991, she left Afghanistan for exile at

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in France. Her works appeared in newspapers and magazines in Afghanistan before the

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and in Iran. Zariâb writes in Persian. Zariâb was one of the first modern Afghan writers to have her works translated into

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. The following works have appeared in translation: * ''Ces murs qui nous écoutent'' (2000) * ''La plaine de Caïn'' (1988, 2001) * ''Dessine-moi un coq'' (2003) * ''Les demeures sans nom'' (2010) Some of her stories have appeared in translation in the

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: * ''Babylon reconquered'' (2009) * ''The man from Kabul'' (2008)

References

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