Shirin Nezammafi

Nezammafi was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Japan in 1999.^[1] Nezammafi is a graduate of Kobe University, where she received her B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 and her M.S. in Information Technology in 2006.^[2] After graduation she joined Panasonic Corporation in Japan.^[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).^[5][6] In 2009, Nezammafi was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize and is the third writer from a country that doesn't use kanji to ever to be nominated for it.^[7][8][9]

• "Shiroikami / Salam" (Bungeishunju, 2009-8-7, ISBN 4163284109)^[10]

Among her other works are:

• short story Nezammafi, Shirin. Saramu. ISBN 978-4-163-28410-1., winner of the 2006 Japanese Literary Award for International Students,^[11]
• Hakudo (Pulse) also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2010,^[12][13] and
• Mimi no ue no choucho (The Butterfly on the Ear) in 2011.^[14]

• 2006, Won the Ryugakusei Bungakusho ("Salam")^[15]
• 2009-4, Won the 108th Bungakukai shinjinsho ("Shiroikami")^[16]
• 2009-7, Shortlisted for the 141st Akutagawa Prize ("Shiroikami")^[17]
• 2010-7, Shortlisted for the 143rd Akutagawa Prize ("Hakudou")^[18]

• Appearing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs official video, Omotenashi: Japan Fascinating Diversity, 2012
• Commemorative lecture at Kobe University entrance ceremony of the academic year 2012