Maryam Djahani
Biography
Maryam Djahani was born in Kermanshah in 1986 into a conservative family with four older brothers and first had to fight for a self-determined life. She began to write while still in high school, initially poetry. She then studied literature. So far she has published two novels and a volume of short stories. She has received numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Djalal Ale Ahmad Prize for Unrestrained by Kermānschāh.
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Shohre is in her early thirties, divorced and a car enthusiast. She works as a taxi driver in the Iranian city of Kermanshah. While male colleagues and passengers sometimes lack the necessary respect, women are proud to take a seat next to a woman at the wheel. On her routes, Shohre repeatedly has surprising encounters and exchanges of words with passengers - even with the supposed man of her dreams.
Translated from the Persian by Isabel Stümpel
