Khomeini, Sade and Me by Abnousse Shalmani received a PEN Translates Award in 2015, among a large number of other women writers, I was very pleased to note. #readwomen
This means that I have earned myself a place among other (intimidatingly better than me) translators on the English PEN World Bookshelf.
For more on English PEN's wonderful Writers in Translation programme, which aims to "champion literature beyond national and linguistic borders and beyond conventional literary expectations", visit their website: http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/Writers-in-Translation-about
