Shirin Nezammafi (Persian: شیرین نظاممافی; Japanese: シリン・ネザマフィ) is an Iranian writer who resides in Japan.
Though her native language is Persian, she writes in Japanese.
Nezammafi was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Japan in 1999.
[3] Nezammafi won the Bungakukai Shinjinsho Award (the New Authors Prize) in 2009 for her second book, White Paper.
[4] She was the second non-Japanese author to accomplish so (and the first from a nation whose native tongue does not utilize Chinese characters).