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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Ana M. Briongos
- Ana M.
- Briongos (born 1946 in Barcelona, Spain), also known as Ana Briongos or Ana MarĂa Briongos. She finished a five-year degree in physics at the University of Barcelona.
- Later she studied Persian at the University of Tehran during the time of the Shah, and worked in Iran and Afghanistan. She came back to Spain and for ten years she was the director of Interway an Organisation for International Student Exchange.
- After the Iranian Revolution she became acquainted with post-revolutionary Iran from Isfahan, where she worked in a carpet store in the city’s bazaar while she was writing her third book.
- She then went to India and lived in Calcutta for several years. Briongos felt the need to tell what she had seen, lived, and felt in these countries.
- As a result, she wrote six books in Spanish and Catalan, which have been translated into several languages, all of them explaining daily life and the experiences of everyday people, with the idea that information should not remain only in the hands of television cameras, journalists, and anthropologists. Nowadays she gives lectures and conferences in universities and social organisations. Her book Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban won the 2009 Annual Latino Book Award for best travel book.
- Another of her books, Black on black: Iran revisited, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in 2001, and was one of the final six contenders.
- and In 2009, she won the Gourmand Award 2009 in two categories for the book Iran, receptes i costums gastronĂłmics, written in Catalan, with Quico Alsina as co-author.
- From 2013 to 2015 she was a member of the board of Sociedad Geográfica Española.
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