Nasim Mara'shi is an Iranian novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Published in 2015, her first novel Fall is the Last Season of the Year won the Jalal Al Ahmad Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Iran. It has become a bestseller of Cheshmeh Publishing and in a few years has reached its fiftieth edition. The novel was published in Italian by Ponte33 and in English by Austrahause. Published in 2018, her second novel, Harrow, has now reached more than 20 editions and has been translated into Turkish and Kurdish.
The writing of her third novel is the focus of her residency at the Cité internationale des arts. The project began five years ago and involved many interviews with Afghan refugees in Berlin, Paris, Rome and Toronto. This novel, which will follow an Afghan refugee family, will focus on the confrontation of said family with the new society in which they live.
"I think the second-generation immigrants bears the brunt of immigration," says Nasim Mara'shi. That is why this novel will focus on the daughter as a representative of the second generation of immigrants as she inevitably becomes the link between her family and the new culture she discovers.