Sholeh Rezazadeh (1989) came to the Netherlands from Iran in 2015. Three years after her arrival, she signed a contract for her debut novel The Sky is Always Purple (2021), which was awarded the Debut Prize by the Society of Dutch Literature in 2022 and the Bronze Owl Audience Award in 2021. It was also longlisted for the Libris Literature Prize 2022 and the Hebban Debut Prize 2022. More than 35,000 copies of The Sky is Always Purple have been sold.