In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Shokoofeh Azar's The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen, where a Zoroastrian family’s peace is shattered by the Iranian Revolution. In its ...

Shokoofeh Azar couldn't imagine a life beyond the confines of the tiny boat on which she and 75 other people were making the perilous crossing from Indonesia to Christmas Island in search of sanctuary ...

A journalist forced to flee her homeland of Iran has been short-listed for a major literary prize for a book she says has helped heal the pain of her past Each book, collected by her, her father and ...

In 2011 the writer Shokoofeh Azar found herself in a strange country, with a strange dilemma. As a journalist in Iran, words and language had been her weapon of choice — a way to speak out about the ...

As a teenager in Tehran, she was inspired by the award-winning authors of the day. “I was a great reader,” she said. “My father was a writer, poet and artist and our house had lots of books. I read ...

Europa Editions has snapped up The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen, a layered magical realist novel from Iranian writer Shokoofeh Azar. Michael Reynolds, editor in chief at Europa Editions ...

Azar, who now lives in Geelong, is in contention for her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, first written in Farsi yet never published in Iran. The translator of the novel into English is ...

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