Shokooh mirzadegi biography template

  • Over the past four decades, she has been one of the most active figures in the Iranian literary community, both inside and outside Iran.
  • History 1850-2000.
  • Khosrow Golsorkhi was a journalist, poet, writer and the editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper in the late 1960s.

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    Things We Left Unsaid: A Novel bygd Zoya Pirzad, translated bygd Franklin Lewis (London: Oneworld, 2012; reprint 2013; Persian original, Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz, 2002). 346pp. A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life... more

    Things We Left Unsaid:  A Novel by Zoya Pirzad, translated by Franklin Lewis  (London: Oneworld, 2012; reprint 2013; Persian original, Tehran:  Nashr-e Markaz, 2002).  346pp.
    A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life as an Armenian-Iranian woman living in Abadan, Iran, where one of the world's largest oil refineries is situated. She has all she's ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighborhood. But her tranquillity ends with the arrival of an enigmatic Armenian family across the street. The debonair widower, his beguiling tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way into Clarisse

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    Who is Shokooh Mirzadegi?


    Alongside her activities as a teacher of Persian language and Literature, she has been actively involved in issues related to education and women’s studies, the results of which have been published in the form of a series of articles and papers.In the early 1970s, using her ex-husband’s surname and writing under Shokooh Farhang, she participated in the activities of a group of Iranian writers and artists to free political prisoners.This led to their arrest and trial. She, along with many others of this group, were initially sentenced to death. On accepting to plea for pardon on a TV show-trial, she and some other co-defendants were freed after a while. Two of the group’s members were executed however and some spent long-term prison sentences in jail.After regaining her freedom, she began writing again and in 1977 was able to obtain permission to travel abroad. She settled for some time in London but before long returned home to witne

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    Persian Language & Literature

    The History of Female Storywriters
    By: Hassan Mirabedini, 2005


    In our community, alike others, what female authors write are a part of the general current of contemporary literary works. All the dos and don’ts which limit the domain of contemporary literature are binding for the women’s writings too. Interestingly, female authors are after finding ways to be innovative in the form and text of writings, like their male counterparts. But in a society like ours, the fact is women are more socially restricted compared to men and have lesser opportunities for developing their literary potential. What distinguishes their works from men’s, is their feminine outlook toward emotional and social issues and their focus on details in shaping the structure of their stories. Especially, in the post-revolutionary era, Iranian women were humans facing historical-cultural upheavals as the result of Islamic Revolution and the imposed war. In order to confron