been translated into French and published by Zulma Publishers in Paris. Zoya Pirzad's works have also been translated into German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Slovene, Spanish and Turkish, published in those countries. The Polish translation of the short story “Père Lachaise” appeared in the anthology Kolacja cyprysu i ognia. Współczesne opowiadania irańskie (Dinner of the Cypress and Fire. Contemporary Iranian Short Stories) selected and rendered into Polish by Ivonna Nowicka, Warszawa 2003. See also Persian literature List of famous Persian women References Further reading Voegeli, M. (2015) “Quiet Lives and Looming Horrors – Subversive Narrative Strategies in the Earliest Short Stories of Zōyā Pīrzād,” in Krasnowolska, A. and Rusek-Kowalska, R. (eds) Studies on the Iranian World: Medieval and Modern. Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 107–116. Yaghoobi, Claudia. “Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in ‘A Day Before Easter’.” International Journal of Persian Literature, Issue 3. 1 (August 2018): 110-132. 1952 births Living people Iranian women novelists Iranian novelists People from Abadan, Iran Iranian people of Armenian descent Iranian people of Russian descent 21st-century Iranian writers Iranian women short story writers Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients