Shahrnoush Parsipour

Shahrnoush Parsipour was born in Tehran on 17 February 1946, to a father from Shiraz who was a judge. A graduate in sociology, she produced programmes for national television and resigned in 1974 in protest at the execution of two writer-journalists, which earned her a few months in prison. She then studied Chinese language and civilisation at the Sorbonne, from 1976 to 1980. Arrested in 1981, she spent nearly five years in prison without trial, and was arrested twice more. Settled in the United States in 1994, she died in San Francisco on 3 July 2026.

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• NovelTouba and the Meaning of Nightطوبی و معنای شبShahrnoush Parsipour · 1988Literature