Shara Atashi is an Iranian writer and translator, now based in Aberystwyth, Wales. 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.
Shara worked for lawyers representing prominent clients, including sympathisers of the Baader-Meinhof Group, and later witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. After working for the European Patent Office in the Hague she relocated to London and settled down as a translator.
Her works have subsequently been published in a number of journals. In 2021, Shara was awarded a place at Literature Wales’s campaign against racism and is now dedicating her entire time to writing and literary translation. Her first work published by WritersMosaic was her long essay, Large Glass, 2021, followed by a number of film and poetry reviews. Shara is among the winners of the 2022 Stephen Spender Prize poetry translation competition.
