Nahal Tajadod

Nahal Tajadod is an Iranian writer and scholar living in Paris. Tajadod was married to Jean-Claude Carrière until his death. She received the Grande médaille de la francophonie in 2007 from the Académie Française.

Life Her father, , of the Haeri Mazandarani family was an Iranian writer and her mother, , was one of the pioneers of play-writing in Iran. In the 1970s, Nahal Tajadod went to France to study Chinese culture and literature. She studied under people like François Cheng, an expert in Chinese poetry, calligraphy and painting.