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Alie Ataee is an Afghan novelist and screenplay writer who has written four novels and several short stories for multiple nation-wise and international magazines such as Guernica and Michigan Quarterly Review. She has won several literary awards including Mehregan Adab.

Biography
Alie was born on June 3rd 1981 and grew up in Darmian, a border region between South Khorasan province of Iran and Farah province of Afghanistan. Growing up in Iran as a female Afghan immigrant, she experienced a lot of discrimination and difficulties which led her to work as an Afghan women's rights activist. Her works are deeply influenced by her observations and experiences as a child.

Career
Alie graduated from high-school in Birjand and went to Tehran to continue her studies in Tehran University of Art where she recieved her B.A. and M.A. in screenplay writing. Being an immigrant herself, Alie dedicated most of her focus to writing about immigration. Beside publishing books, she has been working with multiple renown nation-wise magazines such as Hamshahri, Tajrobeh, Saan, and Nadastan. Her stories have also been translated and published in several English and French magazines such as Michigan Quarterly Review and Quernica.

Short stories

 * Galileo, Translated by Salar Abdoh, Words Without Borders, (2019)
 * The Alcove, Translated by Salar Abdoh, Michigan Quarterly Review (2019)
 * The Border Merchant, Translated by Salar Abdoh, Quernica, (2019)
 * Parisian Coffee, Translated by Mohammad Sarvi, The Bombay Review (2021)

Participations

 * The story of women of Afghanistan, a collection of short stories by Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi (Kabul, 2017)
 * Sous le ciel de Kaboul, a collection of short stories by Khojesta Ebrahimi (Paris, 2018)
 * No one's home, a collection of short stories by Elham Fallah (Tehran, 2019)
 * Tehran's Valiasr street, a collection of short stories by Kaveh Fooladinasab (Tehran, 2021)

Awards

 * Mehregan-e-Adab Literary Award for Kafourpoosh (2014)
 * Vav Literary award for Kafourpoosh (2014)
 * Dastan-e-Tehran Award for Thirty Kilometer, from Eye of the dog (2015)
 * Dastan-e-Tehran Award for Galileo from Eye of the dog (2018)
 * Mashhad Literary Award for Eye of the dog (2021)

Other works

 * Member of the academy for Hezar-o-Yek-Shab Literary Award (2014)
 * Member of the academy for Qand-e-Parsi Literary Award (2017)
 * Member of the academy for Ahmad Mahmoud Literary Award (2020)
 * Member of the academy for Fereshteh Literary Award (2020)