A character. A scene. A life. A feeling.
01Her story
Words.
A way of
creating.
Golnaz Tavakolian, born in 1973, is an author of fiction. She studied theoretical economics and spent nearly three decades teaching English. But her story does not begin with a degree or a profession. It begins with books.
She has been reading and putting words on paper since adolescence. What started as an interest gradually became something closer to a necessity—a way of giving shape to things that stay inside us and do not always have a clear language of their own. Poetry has been part of her life since those early years, and she continues to pursue it alongside fiction.
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VOICE. IMAGE. WORD.
A story
has a voice.
02The books
Four books. Many worlds.Life,
between the lines.
Three collections of short stories and a novella. The published work of Golnaz Tavakolian.
03Fragments & stories
Watch the
words unfold.
A narrative that slowly comes to light. Images, movement, and words worth pausing for.
Enter the reading roomThese three frames preview the reading experience using passages from the biography. Independent stories and personal writings will appear here.
ON THE MIRACLE OF CREATING
Perhaps that is why she would one day like to create a workshop where you do not have to be an author to take part.
In her words04Correspondence
Every conversation
begins with
a word.
About a book, a thought, or simply to say hello.