Mahshid Amirshahi

Amirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran)

Ed. by Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.1.1: Iranian/ Persian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales)

Dates

Born 9 Apr 1937

Places

Active in France; Iran

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Born in 1937 (=1316 in Iranian calendar), Mahshid Amirshahi is an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, and political activist who currently lives in exile in France. In Iran, Amirshahi is known for her collections of short stories prior to exile, and also for the controversial essay she published on the eve of the Islamic Revolution (1979) in support of Shapur Bakhtiar, Iran’s last Premier of the Pahlavi era (1925–1979). In the diaspora, she is rather known for her activism in the aftermath of the revolution, and for the six novels she published afterwards:

Dar Hazar

[At Home] (1987),

Dar Safar

[Away] (1995), and the tetralogy

Madaran va Dokhtaran

[Mothers and Daughters] (1998–2010).

Amirshahi grew up in an upper middle-class family that would become the main source of inspiration

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Citation: Vafa, Amirhossein. "Mahshid Amirshahi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 February 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13968, accessed 24 November 2024.]