Maryam Madjidi
Maryam Madjidi (born August 9, 1980 in Tehran ) is an Iranian-French writer.
Life
In 1986 Maryam Madjidi moved to France to live with her parents, who had already emigrated from Iran, where she grew up in Paris and Drancy . She studied literature at the Sorbonne and wrote her master's thesis on a comparison of the Iranian authors Omar Chayyām and Sadegh Hedayat . She rediscovered her mother tongue. In 2003 she returned to Iran full of national enthusiasm and also stayed as a French language teacher in China and Turkey. Disillusioned with the lack of freedom in society in Iran, she reversed her decision and has lived in France again since 2010.
Madjidi worked as a French language teacher in a prison in Nanterre and in a project for unaccompanied refugee minors.
Her first, autobiographical, Roman Marx et la poupée received the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2017 .
Works
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Marx et la poupée . Le Nouvel Attila, 2017 ISBN 978-2371000438
- You jump, I fall . Translation from French by Julia Schoch . Structure, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-05050-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Maryam Madjidi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Maryam Madjidi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Maryam Madjidi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maryam Madjidi , at Aufbau-Verlag
- Katja Petrovic: ELit Book Tip: Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée , September 27, 2017
- Bruno Corty, Mohammed Aïssaoui: Prix Goncourt premier roman, nouvelle et poésie: le palmarès et les critiques littéraires , Le Figaro, 3 May 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Madjidi, Maryam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian-French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |