作者: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani grew up in Uganda, was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now lives in France. She is the author of The Saddlebag and Paper as well as non-fiction works about fundamentalism and education. Her novels have been published in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian, and Korean. She was praised in the Times Literary Supplement as a “superb Persian novelist, ” and the French translation of The Woman Who Read Too Much was identified, in 2007, as “one of the best three books” of the year.