Shokoofeh Azar

Shokoofeh Azar is the author of essays, articles, and children’s books and is the first Iranian woman to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, originally written in Farsi and translated by an anonymous translator, was shortlisted for Australia’s 2018 Stella Prize for Fiction and the 2020 International Booker Prize. It is her first novel to be translated into English.

The Victory of Our Revolution Is the Final Triumph of Tahirih, Homa Darabi, and the Blue Girl

December 6, 2022 | Shokoofeh Azar

Credit: Duncan Cumming / Flickr Shokoofeh Azar, an Iranian writer living in exile in Australia, traces the women’s uprising forty-three years in the making as Iranians throw off the restri...
Why Iranians Continue to Seek Refuge in Australia

Summer 2020
Shokoofeh Azar

An Iranian detainee hangs up her laundry on the fence at the Construction camp detention center used for younger men and women and children. February 26, 2012, on Christmas Island, Australia. Pho...
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar

Spring 2020
Shokoofeh Azar

New York. Europa Editions. 2020. 245 pages. Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is an astoundingly imaginative work of fiction with deep roots in Persian culture. The n...