Nelofer Pazira
Nelofer Pazira is a journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist living in Toronto.
In 2001, she starred in the film Kandahar, which was loosely based on her journey to find a friend living in Afghanistan. Two years later she co-directed and produced the Gemini Award-winning documentary Return to Kandahar.
A Bed of Red Flowers, her first book, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize awarded by The Writers’ Trust of Canada. In an interview with Time magazine, Pazira explains the impetus for writing the book: “A lot of my memories were unhappy, and I didn’t want to revisit them. But making Kandahar, I was forced...
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Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs - International; Biography & Autobiography; History - Asia
978-0-679-31272-7 (0-679-31272-2)
April 11, 2006 | $21.00
As a young girl growing up in 1970s Afghanistan, Nelofer Pazira seems destined for a bright future. The daughter of liberal-minded professionals, she enjoys a safe, loving and privileged life. Some of her early memories include convivial family picnics and New Years’ celebrations overlooking the thousands of red flowers that carpet...
