Wäis Kiani
Wäis Kiani is a German author and style critic.
Life
Wäis Kiani was born near Frankfurt am Main and grew up in Germany and Tehran. Her Iranian parents emigrated to Germany at the time of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . Your father is a doctor. She lives and works in Zurich and Munich.
Wäis Kiani regularly writes columns and texts on fashion, culture and the way of life in various publications in Germany and Switzerland. Among other things, every week in the magazine of the SonntagsBlicks and in the women's magazine InStyle . In 2004, her bestseller, Die, Susi! , a provocative reckoning with “the man who discovered the woman in himself and is now cultivating it” (blurb). Her partly autobiographical novel Behind the Moon (2012) was recorded as a social novel by a girl socialized in the West against the background of the Reza Shah government and the feudalist Iranian upper class.
Works (selection)
- The Susi crisis. Why women no longer need men and are bored now , non-fiction book, Piper 2015
- Behind the Moon , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe 2012
- Nothing to wear! , Column collection, Goldmann Verlag 2009
- Die, Susi! , Non-fiction book, Goldmann Verlag 2005
Publications (selection)
- Just a matter of nerves. Financial Times Deutschland, December 2011, pp. 50–51
Web links
- Literature by and about Wäis Kiani in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author information from the Random House publishing group
- Interview with Wäis Kiani at Junge Verlags Menschen
- Wäis Kiani at Perlentaucher
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author information. Hoffman and Campe publishing house. Retrieved January 27, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kiani, Wäis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian-German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |