Shiva Rahbaran

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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 2023-04-28.
  • 'Massoumeh: An Iranian Family in Times of Revolution'. Wasafiri, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 74–76.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Shiva Rahbaran". Guernica.
  2. ^ a b An interview with Shiva Rahbaran, Wasafiri, 1 January 2017. Accessed 19 December 2020.
  3. ^ The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings. D. Phil. University of Oxford, 2002.
  4. ^ "Shiva Rahbaran, editor: IRANIAN WRITERS UNCENSORED: Freedom, democracy, and the word in contemporary Iran". NI Syndication Limited.
  5. ^ "New Writing Prize 2016". Wasafiri. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

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