About Shida Bazyar
Shida Bazyar was born in 1988 in Hermeskeil, Germany. She studied literary writing in Hildesheim before moving to Berlin to lead a double life. For half the day, she is an educational advisor for young people who are doing a one-year environmental volunteering program in Brandenburg. In the remainder of her time, she is an author. In addition to publishing short stories in magazines and anthologies, she held a scholarship for the Klagenfurt Literature Course in 2012, and also received a student scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. For her debut novel, she won the Ulla Hahn Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize in 2017.
