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Iranian refugee Shokoofeh Azar longlisted for Booker International
When Shokoofeh Azar was a teenager in Tehran she often dreamed about winning the Booker Prize.
When the winning books were translated into Farsi, she would devour them.
- Jason Steger
- WA Today
“I followed all of the Booker Prize winners,” she says, “and always wanted to win the…