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Delijani is a recipient of the de Groot
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while both her parents were detained as leftist political activists, fighting against the newly established
Islamic regime. Delijani's mother spent two years and a half in prison and her father four years. Her uncle, her father's younger brother, however, was among thousands of political prisoners
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Delijani, her older brother and her cousin were raised by her grandparents and aunt until their parents' release. Much of this experience, inside and outside Evin Prison, serves as an inspiration for
Delijani's debut novel, which spans the decades from 1983 to 2011 and the
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