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Shiva Rahbaran

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Shiva Rahbaran (born 1970) is an Iranian writer and researcher.

Life

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. SHe studied literature and political science at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf,[1] before completing a PhD supervised by [[Christopher Butler (literary scholar)|] at Oxford University, on the writer Nicholas Mosley.[2] The study was later published by Dalkey Archive Press.

After living in Munich and Zurich for twelve years, Rahbaran moved to London in 2013.[1]

Her short story 'Massoumeh' won the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.[3]

Works

  • The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings. Rochester : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
  • Iranian writers uncensored: freedom, democracy, and the Word in contemporary Iran. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.
  • Iranian cinema uncensored: contemporary film-makers since the Islamic revolution. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015.
  • 'Massoumeh: An Iranian Family in Times of Revolution'. Wasafiri, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2017), pp.74-76.

References

  1. ^ a b An interview with Shiva Rahbaran, Wasafiri, 1 January 2017. Accessed 19 December 2020.
  2. ^ The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings. D. Phil. University of Oxford, 2002.
  3. ^ "New Writing Prize 2016". Wasafiri. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

External life