Parvin Ardalan

Ardalan is an Iranian journalist, women's rights activist, a writer, and the editor of the feminist websites Iranian Feminists Tribune, Zanestan, and Change for equality. She co-founded the Women's Cultural Center, and the One Million Signatures Campaign, a grass roots movement aimed at repealing discriminatory laws against women.

Ardalan won the Olof Palme Prize In 2007 and the Hellman/Hammett award in 2010. She is an honorary member of Swedish PEN and resided as guest writer in Malmö City of Refuge from 2010 to 2012.