Like many other Afghan women, Nadia Ghulam’s life is marked by the consequences of war and the Taliban regime.
Writer and human rights activist, she was seriously injured by a bomb blast during the Afghan Civil War in 1991, subsequently spending six months in hospital and undergoing 14 surgical operations. To circumvent the rigid prohibitions imposed by the Taliban and to help her family, for ten years she pretended to be her brother, who had died during the war. She later told the story of this experience in her 2010 novel “El secret del meu turbant” [The Secret of my Turban], which won her the Prudenci Bertrana prize for fiction.
Thanks to support from the Association for Human Rights in Afghanistan, she arrived in Badalona in 2006, where she currently lives with her adoptive family.
A writer and human rights activist, she was severely wounded in 1991 during the Afghan civil war. She was brought to Badalona in 2006. She published her autobiography El secret del meu turbant, which won the Prudenci Bertrana Prize.