Writer
Shara Atashi is an Iranian writer and translator, now based in Aberystwyth, Wales. In 1979, at the age of twelve, she travelled to West Germany with her mother in the hope that the new cleric regime in Iran wouldn’t last long. Shara later attended Goethe University where she read law. After working in the Hague she relocated to London and settled down as a translator. Shara is now dedicated to writing and literary translation. Her first work published by WritersMosaic was Large Glass in 2021, and since then she has written regularly for the site. Shara is among the winners of the 2022 Stephen Spender Prize poetry translation competition.