Shiva Rahbaran
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Iranian writer
Shiva Rahbaran (born November 28, 1970) is an Iranian writer and researcher.
Life
[edit ]Shiva Rahbaran was born in Tehran, and was eight years old when the Shah was exiled in 1979. She and her family left Iran for Germany in 1984.[1] She studied literature and political science at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf,[2] before completing a PhD supervised by Christopher Butler at Oxford University, on the writer Nicholas Mosley.[3] The study was later published by Dalkey Archive Press.[4]
After living in Munich and Zürich for twelve years, Rahbaran moved to London in 2013.[2]
Shiva Rahbaran is a contributor to BBC Persian, BBC World and Iran International.
Her short story 'Massoumeh' won the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.[5]
Works
[edit ]- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, 2002 ISBN 978-0-743-22034-7
- The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings. Rochester : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-564-78488-9
- Nicholas Mosley's Life and Art: A Biography in Six Interviews (Dalkey Archive Scholarly), 2009 ISBN 978-1-564-78564-0
- Iranian writers uncensored: freedom, democracy, and the Word in contemporary Iran. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-564-78688-3
- Rahbaran, Shiva (2015). Iranian Cinema Uncensored: Contemporary Film-makers since the Islamic Revolution. I.B. Tauris. p. 289. ISBN 978-1-784-53418-9 . Retrieved 2023年04月28日.
- 'Massoumeh: An Iranian Family in Times of Revolution'. Wasafiri, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 74–76.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Shiva Rahbaran". Guernica.
- ^ a b An interview with Shiva Rahbaran, Wasafiri , 1 January 2017. Accessed 19 December 2020.
- ^ The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings. D. Phil. University of Oxford, 2002.
- ^ "Shiva Rahbaran, editor: IRANIAN WRITERS UNCENSORED: Freedom, democracy, and the word in contemporary Iran". NI Syndication Limited.
- ^ "New Writing Prize 2016". Wasafiri. Retrieved 1 November 2020.