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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…

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