Shahrnush Parsipur: Iran has lost one of its bravest and boldest literary voices

By Hind Elhinnawy, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

The death of the Iranian novelist and feminist writer at the age of 80 marks the loss of one of the most courageous and original voices in modern Persian literature. For more than five decades, Parsipur wrote women into spaces from which they had often been excluded: history, politics, spirituality and even storytelling.

Imprisoned under both the shah and the Islamic Republic, censored, banned and eventually exiled, she remained committed to a simple but radical idea: women deserve to be the authors of their own lives.

Born in Tehran in 1946, Parsipur entered Iranian literature…

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