Shirin Nezammafi


Shirin Nezammafi is an Iranian writer who resides in Japan. Though her native language is Persian, she writes in Japanese. She is fluent in English, Persian and Japanese.

Biography

Nezammafi was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Japan in 1999. Nezammafi is a graduate of Kobe University, where she received her B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 and her M.S. in Information Technology in 2006. After graduation she joined Panasonic Corporation in Japan.
Nezammafi won the Bungakukai Shinjinsho Award in 2009 for her second book, White Paper. She was the second non-Japanese author to accomplish so. In 2009, Nezammafi was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize and is the third writer from a country that doesn't use kanji to ever to be nominated for it.

Publications

  • "Shiroikami / Salam"
Among her other works are:

Prizes

  • 2006, Won the Ryugakusei Bungakusho
  • 2009-4, Won the 108th Bungakukai shinjinsho
  • 2009-7, Shortlisted for the 141st Akutagawa Prize
  • 2010-7, Shortlisted for the 143rd Akutagawa Prize

Other activities