Siba Shakib

Siba Shakib (* Iran ) is an Iranian-German writer, journalist and filmmaker.

Life

Siba Shakib is the daughter of a German mother and an Iranian father. She grew up in Tehran, where he attended the German School and then studied in Germany. Siba Shakib initially worked as a radio and television presenter in the field of music, made ​​films with portraits of stars such as Miles Davis and Mick Jagger.

She became famous through their film Mahmoody against Mahmoody, for which they had the man of the best-selling author Betty Mahmoody ( Not Without My Daughter ) in Iran identified.

Siba Shakib speaks German, English and Italian, Farsi accent, which largely corresponds to the Afghan Dari. Due to this fact, and their depth of knowledge about Afghanistan Shakib consulted from 2002 for several years the local UN peacekeeping force ISAF, and later NATO forces, especially the military.

Known worldwide Siba Shakib was her novel After Afghanistan God only comes to weep, depicting the moving story of Shirin - Gol Afghan woman whose life was marked by over 20 years of war and destruction. The book made ​​it to No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list and has been sold in 16 countries, translated into 27 languages ​​and won many awards a PEN Award. 2009 her third novel Eskandar was published.

Currently the author is working on filming her second bestseller Samira and Samir, where they will direct the film himself.

She lives temporarily in Dubai, New York City and northern Italy.

Works

• 2002 After Afghanistan God only comes to weep (C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 3-57000-634-4 )
• 2003 Samira and Samir (C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 3-57000-684-0 )
• 2009 Eskandar (C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 3-57000-968-8 )

Prices

A flower for the women in Kabul

• German Human Rights Film Award 1998