Shahrnush Parsipur

Shahrnush Parsipur (Persian شهرنوش پارسی پور; born February 17, 1946 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian writer.

Life

She took her degree in sociology in 1973 at Tehran University and then studied until 1980 Chinese language and culture at the Sorbonne. In the late 1960s, she published her first short story. Her first book was Tupak -e Qermez ( The Little Red Ball 1969), a story for young people. Other works followed.

In the late 1980s Parsipur received attention in literary circles in Tehran and several of her stories were published in Iranian journals. Her second book was Tuba and the Meaning of Night, which she wrote in prison after four years. Before her arrest, she had published a translation of a book by Michelle Mercier. Your next job she finished in the late 1970s under the title "Women without Men", a short novel, which consisted of different interconnected stories. The Iranian government banned this work and put pressure on the author, not to write more such in future. 1990 ended Parsipur her fourth book, a 1000 -page history of a female Don Quixote, which she called The Blue and the reason was not for sale until 1992.

Shahrnush Parsipur left Iran in view of the prospects of a life there as a writer. She currently lives in the United States.

Adaptation

The Iranian-American photo artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat made ​​in an exhibition in Berlin Parsipur novel Women Without Men for a film installation in advance of, initially planned in five parts, feature film. Women Without Men ( Zanan bedun -e Mardan 95 min ) had its 2009 premiere in competition at the 66th Film Festival of Venice.

Works (selection)

  • Bar Bale Bad Neshastan ( On the Wings of the Wind), novel, 2002
  • Shiva, novel, 1999
  • Majerahaye Sadeh va Kuchake rest Derakht ( The small, simple adventures of the Tree-Spirit ), novel, 1999
  • Zanan bedun -e mardan ( Women Without Men ), novel, 1990
  • Tuba va ma'na -ye shab, novel, 1989 ( German translation: Tuba, Union Verlag Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-293-00217- X. ).
  • Tell va Zemestan -e boland ( The Dog and the Long Winter ) novel 1976

Publications (selection)

  • Blue spring. In: Lettre International, LI 97, Summer 2012, pp. 64-65
Chinese culture Women Without Men (2009 film) Integrated Authority File
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