Goli Taraghi

Zohreh Taraghi-Moghadam, better known as Goli Taraghi (Persian: گلی ترقی)[1] (born 1939) is an Iranian novelist and short story writer.

[2] Born and raised in Tehran, she attended Drake University in the United States, gaining an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

Returning to Iran, she obtained a master's degree from Tehran University in 1967 and worked throughout the 1960s as a specialist in international relations for the Plan Organization.

Taraghi divorced her husband Hazhir Daryush and moved with her two children to become an ex-patriate in Paris, though she visited Iran throughout the 1980s.

[3] Winter Sleep (1973) a collection of narratives portraying the inner life of eight middle-class city-dwellers, amid the religious dislocation and anomie arising from Iran's rapid modernization in the 1960s.