Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an

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ian-born French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel '' Disoriental (Désorientale)''.Dalia Sofer
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Biography

Born in 1969, in

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(now Iran). Djavadi moved with her family to France shortly after the

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due to their opposition to the Ayatollah

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. She studied film at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion, and worked for a number of years as a screenwriter and film director. Her work in film included the short films ''L'Espace désolé'' (1995), ''Entre les vagues'' (1997), ''Comédie classique'' (2001) and ''Jeanne, à petits pas...'' (2005), the feature film ''13 m²'' (2007) and the television film ''Né sous silence'' (2018). ''Désorientale'', her debut novel, was published in 2016, and ''Disoriental'', its English translation by Tina Kover, was published in 2018. The original French edition won a number of literary awards in France and Belgium, including the Prix de L'Autre Monde, the Prix du Style, the Prix Emmanuel Roblès, the Prix Première, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the Prix du Roman News. Its English translation by Tina Kover won the

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for Bisexual Fiction at the

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and the Van Cleef & Arpels Albertine Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature."2018 National Book Award finalists named"
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Djavadi, Negar 1969 births 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers 20th-century Iranian women writers 21st-century Iranian women writers 21st-century French novelists French women novelists Iranian women novelists French women screenwriters French women film directors Lambda Literary Award winners Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in France Living people