Creators of Hamdastan

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I come from a family of large landowners in Iran and studied chemistry and librarianship there; I subsequently pursued German language and literature as well as Iranian studies at the University of Hamburg, where I earned my doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a dissertation on Goethe and Hafez.

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Taking writing and story-writing courses, winning fourth place in an online story-writing competition٫ and working as an idea generator and story writer in the textbook redesign project.

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Zümrüd Yağmur is an Azerbaijani writer and journalist living in exile. She is the author of twelve books and more than one hundred articles. She holds an MA in Literature from Baku State University and a PhD in Philology, and in 2017 she was awarded the Zardabi Prize for her work in journalism. Her works have been published in Ukraine, Türkiye, and Iran. In both her fiction and journalistic writing, she depicts the severe consequences of authoritarianism on human life, the power of patriarchal systems, and the lives of women struggling against violence and silencing in restrictive societies. Two of her political novels have been banned in Azerbaijan. Among her notable works are "Singing a Song to the Darkness", which addresses systemic repression and political imprisonment; "The Name of the Country 22", a dystopian novel depicting dictatorship and moral collapse; and "The Snake Within Us", a literary work exploring female trauma, memory, and fragmented identity under violence. Her public advocacy for women's rights and freedom of expression has led to serious personal consequences. In 2023, amid a new wave of repression against freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, she was forced to leave the country and begin life in exile. She continues to write from exile, bringing into literature voices and experiences that are often silenced in public life.

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نویسنده و مدرس داستان‌نویسی متولد ۱۳۵۶ خورشیدی کارشناسی ارشد ادبیات نمایشی از دانشگاه پارس تهران کتاب‌ها: مجموعه داستان «بی مقصد»، ۱۳۹۸ نشر حکمت کلمه انتشار چند مجموعه مشترک و رمانی در دست انتشار.

Maleka Here, loneliness speaks, silence writes its own letters, and death leaves unfinished stories behind. I write of love that lingers, memories that refuse to fade, and hearts that hide entire worlds within them. Welcome to my world— where every silence has a voice, and every ending has a story.

Simin Mortazi is a fiction writer with a master’s degree in Social Sciences, specializing in Social Research. Her stories explore human and social experiences, power dynamics, and the contradictions of bureaucracy in everyday life and the workplace.

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