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Rahnaward Zaryab (Mohammad Azam Rahnaward Zaryab, (August 1944 – 10 December 2020 was an Afghan novelist, short story writer, journalist, and literary critic/scholar. He was born in 1944 in the Rika Khana neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, to illiterate parents. He was married to Spojmai  Zariab with whom he has three daughters. He received a degree in journalism from Kabul University and pursued further education in Wales and New Zealand. Zaryab wrote in Farsi/Dari, the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

On his return to Afghanistan in the early 1970s he took a job with the prominent Zhwandoon Magazine as a crime reporter. He has said that he sought the job because it gave him material for his stories. He has continued to work as a print and TV journalist and editor throughout his career and in the spring of 2015 worked as an editor for Tolo TV in Kabul, Afghanistan’s largest private broadcaster. He has also held government positions in the Culture Ministry of Afghanistan.

Zaryab lived in exile in France during the 1990s but returned to Kabul after the fall of the Taliban. His wife and three daughters live in Paris, France.

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Despite critical and commercial success as an author in the 1970s, his ability to make a living from writing has suffered along with the prospects of the Afghani middle and intellectual classes since the time of the 1979 Soviet invasion. Also, the bookshops that now exist in Kabul tend to sell bootleg copies of Iranian works. This did not stop him from continuing to write, though he said he did so mostly for himself.

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The story of a man in his sixties who wakes up after seeing a woman dancing by the cemetery and sees that the same woman (the former Rababa and the current Golnar) has come and is sitting on the bed in her room. The woman asks, "Did you write that story?" The man responds: "I write. I write right now." And begins to write.

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