The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator on the importance of Iranian women writers, and the books originally written in Persian that everyone should read
Faridoun Farrokh
Faridoun Farrokh was born and educated in Iran, where he began a teaching career
As an academic, his research has focused on 18th-century English literature, contemporary Iranian fiction, as well as literary translation.
His English language translation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.
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In Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men, we follow the lives of five women against the background of revolution and coups as they find their way to a garden, shedding their old lives like snakeskin
The International Booker Prize 2026 judges on Women Without Men
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A powerful and essential tale of female freedom
Translated by Faridoun Farrokh
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