Sepideh Shamlou
# Sepideh Shamlou

Sepideh Shamlou (in Persian: سپیده شاملو) is an Iranian award-winner writer. She has written several novels in Persian. She was born in 1968 in Iran. She obtained a BS in English. Sepideh Shamlou started off writing film pieces, but with the release of It was as if you had said that Lily, she then became a novelist. She was among the many female authors who started writing in the 1990s onwards. Her novel titled As you had told Leyli was awarded a Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award for Best First Novel in 2000. She was interviewed by Haft magazine in 2006 on her novel. She was also interviewed by Etemaad newspaper in 2007.

## Books

* As you had told Leyli, 2011 (first published in 2000) (novel) ISBN 978-9-643-05496-0
* Your redness from me, 2006 (novel) ISBN 978-9-643-05873-9
* Red glove (collection of short stories)

## Awards and recognition

* 2000 Hooshang Golshiri Literary Awards, Best First Novel, As if You Had Said Leyli
* Sepideh Shamlou was a judge for the 7th Sadegh Hedayat Literary Award in 2009.
