Ali Shirazi
Ali Schirasi (or Ali Schirazi , Persian: ʿAlī Šīrāzī ; * 1940 in Iran ) is an Iranian author .
Life
At the age of 16, Shirazi became a primary school teacher, and later he qualified as a high school teacher for mathematics at the University of Education . He also prepared students for university entrance exams. During the time of the Shah, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was able to terminate this prematurely in 1978 thanks to the International Committee of the Red Cross . After he was arrested again after the 1979 revolution, he was able to flee to Germany .
Today he lives as a freelance writer in Germany and appears in public with numerous readings, lectures and events. He has published several books in German and Persian. His book Steinregen includes u. a. the story Hopes Without End , which was awarded the Ingeborg Drewitz Literature Prize for Prisoners in April 2002 .
Ali Schirasi is married to the Iranian writer Solaleh Schirasi .
Works
- Farewell friends. Memories from Ewin bestvina prison, Iran. 1995
- The night falls - Escape from Iran in 1997
- Farchunde, the district administrator's daughter. Persian stories. Oldenburg 1999
- Ghost wedding. Persian tales 2001
- Neither headscarf nor hand grenade 2004
- Stone rain 2005
- Towards the sun in 2005
- The desert is glowing in 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Ali Schirasi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ali Shirazi's blog
- Homepage of Ali Schirasi
Individual evidence
- ^ As if locked in a coffin , review by Claudia Rindt in "Südkurier" on September 27, 2008, accessed on December 27, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shirazi, Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iran |