Siba Shakib
Siba Shakib , Persianزیبا شکیب, Zibā Schakib , (born December 31, 1969 in Tehran / Iran ) is a German-Iranian writer, journalist and filmmaker.
Life
Siba Shakib is the daughter of a German and an Iranian. She grew up in Tehran , attended the German school there and then studied in Germany. Siba Shakib initially worked as a radio and television presenter in the music sector, making films with portraits of stars like Miles Davis and Mick Jagger .
She became known through her film Mahmoody versus Mahmoody , for which she found the husband of bestselling author Betty Mahmoody ( Not Without My Daughter ) in Iran.
Siba Shakib speaks - in addition to German, English and Italian - Persian , which largely corresponds to the Afghan Dari . Based on this fact and her in-depth knowledge of Afghanistan , Shakib advised the UN peacekeeping force ISAF there for several years from 2002 , and later also the NATO troops, especially the German armed forces .
Siba Shakib became known worldwide through her novel After Afghanistan, God Only Weeps , which tells the moving story of the Afghan Shirin-Gol, whose life was shaped by over 20 years of war and destruction. The book made it to No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list and was sold in 16 countries, translated into 27 languages and won a PEN prize among many other awards . She is a member of the PEN Club Liechtenstein , a center of the international writers' association PEN. In 2009 her third novel Eskandar , a “fairy tale” in the style of “oriental narrative culture”, was published in which she, inspired by the biography of her grandfather Eskandar-Agha, describes the history of Iran represents.
The author is currently working on the film adaptation of her second bestseller Samira and Samir , which she will direct herself.
She lives temporarily in Dubai , New York City and Northern Italy .
Works
- 2002 God only comes to Afghanistan to weep ( C. Bertelsmann Verlag , ISBN 3-570-00634-4 ) ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 11th to 17th, 2002 )
- 2003 Samira and Samir (C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 3-570-00684-0 )
- 2009 Eskandar (C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 3-570-00968-8 )
Prices
A flower for women in Kabul
Web links
- Siba Shakib on Facebook
- Literature by and about Siba Shakib in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Recklinghäuser Zeitung, September 16, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shakib, Siba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Iranian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iran |