Booker Prize shortlisting for FAE alum – Shokoofeh Azar

Congratulations to Shokoofeh Azar who has just been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker prize.

Shokoofeh came to Australia when she was a young teenager when her family fled Iran and has settled in Geelong.  The nomination for her  book The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is set in the years after the 1979 revolution   

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/iranian-author-shokoofeh-azar-makes-shortlist-for-international-booker-prize-1.1001358

Well done Shokoofeh