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 in 1972, Iran and moved to Japan in 1999. She graduated from Kobe University in 2004 and received her master's degree from the same university in 2006. After graduation she joined Panasonic Corporation in Japan. She is currently working at the Dubai subsidiary.
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.

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