Négar Djavadi

Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an Iranian-born French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel Disoriental (Désorientale).

Biography Born in 1969, in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran). Djavadi moved with her family to France shortly after the Iranian Revolution due to their opposition to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The original French edition won a number of literary awards in France and Belgium, including the Prix de L'Autre Monde, the Prix du Style, the Prix Emmanuel Roblès, the Prix Première, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the Prix du Roman News. Its English translation by Tina Kover won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards and the Van Cleef & Arpels Albertine Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.