Granaz Moussavi
Granaz Moussavi (born January 24, 1974 in Tehran ) is an Iranian poet and filmmaker.
Life
Granaz Moussavi's parents worked in film production in Tehran, and in 1997 the family emigrated to Australia . Moussavi completed her film studies, which she began in Iran, in 2002 at Flinders University with the short film A Short Film About Color .
She printed her first volume of poetry in the Iranian underground in 1996, a second volume was published in 2001 and a third volume in 2003. In 2009 she produced the Australian-Iranian, semi-autobiographical film My Tehran for sale in Iran. The film fell under censorship in Iran in 2011, and Mousavi has not been able to travel to Iran since. Moussavi received her PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney in 2011 with an analysis of her film My Tehran for sale . She taught at the University of Queensland . In Germany she was invited to the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival as a juror in 2011 .
Her bilingual volume of poetry Gesänge einer Verbotenen Frau , a German translation, published in 2016 contains a selection from her first three volumes of poetry.
Works
- My Tehran for sale: a reflection on the aesthetics of Iranian poetic cinema . DCA University of Western Sydney 2011
- Songs of a forbidden woman . From the Farsi by Isabel Stümpel. Leipziger Literaturverlag 2016 (first 2003 in Farsi)
Movie
- My Tehran for sale . Farsi with English subtitles. Australia, 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Granaz Moussavi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Granaz Moussavi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Granaz Moussavi , at Faust Culture . There is conflicting information about her date of birth.
- ↑ Kurt Scharf: Stoning . Review, in: taz , April 2, 2016, p. 14
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moussavi, Granaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian poet and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |