Maryam Madjidi

She was born in 1980 in Tehran, but left Iran at the age of six and settled in Paris, later moving to Drancy. She lived for four years in Beijing and two years in Istanbul as a French language teacher, and now teaches French to refugee children and foreigners. She wrote Marx et la poupée (published in Poland, translated by Magdalena Pluta, released by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy in 2018. The debut brought her the 2017 Goncourt Award for First Novel, as well as the 2017 Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs Prize. Her next book, Pour que je m'aime encore, saw release in 2021. Additionally, she has published two youth novels with the L'École des loisirs publishing house – Je m'appelle Maryam (2019) and Mon amie Zahra (2021). Since January 2023, Maryam Madjidi has been a columnist for the L'Humanité weekly.