Name Mehri Yalfani Role Writer | Education University of Tehran | |
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Books Parastoo: Stories and Poems | ||
Mehri Yalfani (Persian: مهری یلفانی) (born in Hamadan, Iran) is an Iranian-born writer who writes both in Persian and English.
Background
After finishing high school in Hamadan, Mehri Yalfani moved to Tehran and studied Electrical Engineering in Tehran University and worked as an engineer for two decades. She began to write stories in high school and published her first collection of short stories, Happy Days, in 1966. Her second book, and first novel, Before the Fall, was published in 1980. In 1985, she emigrated from Iran, first to France and later to Canada. In 1991, the Par Cultural Foundation in the United States published her second collection of short stories, Birthday Party. The same year, Baran Publication in Sweden published her second novel, Someone is Coming. In 1995, her first collection of short stories and poems in English, Parastoo, came out from Women's Press in Canada. Since then, she has published The Shadow, a collection of short stories in 1997, Far from Home, a novel in 1998, Two Sisters, a collection of short stories in English in 1999, and her first novel in English, Afsaneh's Moon.
Mehri Yalfani lives in Toronto, Canada.