Mehri Yalfani
Iranian writer
Mehri Yalfani (Persian: مهری یلفانی Mihrī Yalfānī) (born in Hamadan, Iran) is an Iranian-born writer who writes both in Persian and English.
Background
Mehri Yalfani was born in Hamadan, Iran. After finishing high school, she moved to Tehran and studied Electrical Engineering in Tehran University and worked as an engineer for twenty years. She began to write stories in high school and published her first collection of short stories, Happy Days, in 1966. For almost fifteen years, she concentrated on her family life and raising three children as well as her full-time job as an engineer. Then, her second book, and first novel, Before the Fall, was published in 1980. In 1985, she emigrated from Iran, first to France and later, in 1987, to Canada. Since then, she has dedicated her life to writing and publishing both in Persian and English. In 1991, the Par Cultural Foundation in the United States published her second collection of short stories, Birthday Party.
The same year, Baran Publications in Sweden published her second novel, Someone is Coming.
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