Spozhmai Zaryab

Spozhmai Zaryab was born in 1949 in Kabul, into a cultured, Francophile family. A pupil at the Franco-Afghan lycée, she gained a degree in literature at Kabul University, then a master's at Besançon and a doctorate at Montpellier. She published her first short stories in Dari at the age of seventeen, and her collections then appeared in Afghanistan and Iran. In exile in France, she has lived in Montpellier since 1991 and continues to write in Persian; several collections have been translated into French by Didier Leroy. Michael Barry ranks her among the three greatest Afghan writers of her time.

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• Short storiesدشت قابیلSpozhmai Zaryab · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature