Maryam Madjidi
Maryam Madjidi is a French-Iranian writer. She was born in Tehran in 1980, and moved with her family to France at the age of six. Her parents were communists and had been forced into exile following the Iranian revolution. She studied literature at Sorbonne University and taught French in both Beijing and Istanbul.
Her debut novel Marx et la poupée (2017) was published to widespread acclaim, receiving the Goncourt prize for first novel as well as the Ouest-France Etonnants Voyageurs novel prize. She is currently working on her second novel.[1]
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