Shahrnush Parsipur
Shahrnush Parsipur , also Scha (h) rnusch Parsipur ( Persian شهرنوش پارسی پور; * February 17, 1946 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian author.
Life
She graduated from Tehran University with a degree in sociology in 1973 and then studied Chinese language and culture at the Sorbonne until 1980 . She published her first short stories in the late 1960s. Her first book was Tupak-e Qermez ( The Little Red Ball 1969), a story for young people. Further works followed.
In the late 1980s, Parsipur received attention in Tehran literary circles, and several of her stories were published in Iranian magazines. Her second book was Tuba and the Meaning of the Night , which she wrote after four years in prison. Before she was arrested, she edited a translation of a book by Michelle Mercier . She finished her next work in the late 1970s under the title " Women Without Men ", a short novel that consisted of various connected stories. The Iranian government banned this work and put pressure on the author not to write it in the future. In 1990 Parsipur finished her fourth book, a 1000-page story of a female Don Quixote , which she called The Blue Reason and which was not for sale until 1992. In 1994 she and 133 other artists came out against censorship in an open letter.
Shahrnush Parsipur left Iran because of the lack of prospects for a life there as a writer. She currently lives in the USA .
Adaptation
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In an exhibition in Berlin, the Iranian-American photo artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat made Parsipur's novel Women Without Men on the subject of a film installation in the run-up to a feature film that was initially planned in five parts. Women Without Men ( Zanān bedun-e mardān , 95 min.) Premiered in 2009 in the competition at the 66th Venice Film Festival .
Works (selection)
- Bar Bale Bad Neshastan (On the Wings of the Wind), novel, 2002
- Shiva , Roman, 1999
- Majerahaye Sadeh va Kuchake Ruhe Derakht (The small, simple adventures of the tree spirit), novel, 1999
- Zanan bedun-e mardan (women without men, Suhrkamp Ffm 2012, ISBN 978-3518224717 ), Roman, 1990
- Tubâ va ma'nâ-ye shab , Roman, 1989 (German translation: Scharnusch [sic!] Parsipur: Tuba. , From the Persian by Nima Mina, Unionsverlag Zurich 1995. ISBN 3-293-00217-X ).
- Sag va zemestan-e boland (The Dog and the Long Winter) novel 1976
Web links
- Literature by and about Shahrnush Parsipur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and review of a reading from one of her works
- Short biography and review of the Baumgeistromans
- Shahrnush Parsipur on culturebase.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blurb to: Tuba. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1995
- ↑ http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/sonder/05/neshat1005/neshat_info.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parsipur, Shahrnush |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parsipur, Scharnusch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |