Abadan in Zoya Pirzad’s novel Cherāgh-hā-rā man khāmush mikonam December 30, 2016 By Rasmus Elling 2 Comments by Claus V. Pedersen, University of Copenhagen. Armenian-Iranian prose writer Zoya Pirzad, born in Abadan 1952, was the shining star on the Iranian literary firmament during the 1990s and the early years of this century.