Spôjmaï Zariâb (original) (raw)

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Afghan-born short story writer (born 1949)

Spôjmaï Raouf Zariâb (Dari: سپوژمی زریاب ; born 1949,[1] some sources say 1952[2]) is an Afghan-born short story writer. Her name also appears as Spozhmai Zaryab,[3] and surname appears as Zaryab.[2]

She was born in Kabul and was educated at Kabul University,[2] at the École des Beaux-Arts in Kabul[4] and at Besançon in France. She married Rahnaward Zaryab, also a writer.[2] During the Russian occupation of her country, she worked as a translator at the French embassy. In 1991, she left Afghanistan for exile at Montpellier in France.[4]

Her works appeared in newspapers and magazines in Afghanistan before the Afghan civil war[2] and in Iran. Zariâb writes in Persian.[4]

Zariâb was one of the first modern Afghan writers to have her works translated into French.[1] 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 UNESCO Courier:[5]

• Babylon reconquered (2009)
• The man from Kabul (2008)

1. ^ a b "La Plaine de Caïn". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). November 1983.
2. ^ a b c d e Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 358. ISBN 0415159806.
3. ^ "Empowering Young Writers through the Writers Matter Approach", Empowering Young Writers, Temple University Press, pp. 3–10, 2014-03-07, doi:10.2307/j.ctvrf895h.5, retrieved 2023-02-08
4. ^ a b c "Spôjmaï Zariâb: La littéra t u re contre le cauchemar afghan" (PDF). Le Courier UNESCO (in French): 47–51. March 2001.
5. ^ "Search result". UNESCO Courier.