Freelance Iranian writersin North America

Successful people do not wait for opportunities to turn their goals into

reality; rather, they make their opportunities, because they are

perfectly clear about the kind of life they wish to create.

Brian Tracy

Major Iranian Writers outside Iran

Total: 24

Women: 14

Men: 10

Canada: 7

USA: 10

Other Countries: 7

Some Prominent Writersin North America

Hamid Dabashi: USA

Azar Nafisi: USA

Shahrnush Parsipur: USA

Reza Barahani: Canada

Iraj Rahmani: Canada

Mehri Yalfani: Canada

Hamid Dabashi (1951- )

An internationally renowned cultural critic and award-winning author

20 books in English Authority in Islam Theology of Discontent; Truth and

Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema; Iran: A People Interrupted; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema.

His books translated into many languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Danish, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Urdu and Catalan

Azar Nafisi (1947- )

7 English BooksNotable work: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

Memoir in Books; translated into 32 languagess It was on the New York Times bestseller list over

117 weeks“Remarkable…an eloquent brief on the

transformative power of fiction.”– The New York Times

Shahrnush Parsipur (1946- )

Novelist, 11 novels in Persian5 translationsHer novel Tuba and the Meaning of Night

translated into English, German, Swedish and Italian

Her novel Women without Men translated into Spanish and Malayalam

Reza Barahani (1935- )

Novelist A former President of PEN Canada 54 books in English and Persian Crowned Cannibals, a collection of prose and

poetry Les Saisons en Enfer du Jeune Ayyaz, a novel God's Shadow: Prison Poems, collection of poems

based on a period of 102 days spent in solitary confinement in Iran, during the time of the Shah

Iraj Rahmani

Poet and novelistSeven books: poetry, short fiction and three

novels. Translated his novel into English: The

Incident Happens as WrittenTranslated Canadian short stories and plays

from French and English to Persian

Mehri Yalfani

Poet and novelistPersian and English BooksAfsaneh’s Moon (novel): published in

Canada by McGillan Books Parastoo and Two Sisters (collection of short

stories, English)

Credentials & Interests

Credentials interests

Dabashi Prof of Iranian Studies & Comparative Literature

Cultural Critic, anti-war activist

Nafisi Professor of aesthetics, culture, & literature in Iran

western literature & culture in Iran; culture & human rights; literature & liberation of minds

Parsipur B.A. in sociology in Iran; studied Chinese language and civilization in France

Credentials & Interests

Barahani visiting professor at the University of Toronto

Comparative Literature, poetry, novel, literary criticism

Rahmani Master Degree in Iran; graduated from McGill University in Library & Information Science

Democratice activist

Yalfani BA Electrical Engineering in Iran

Poetry, novel

Their Common Representation

Conveying national or moral values of Iranian culture

Giving readers an inside look at the present cultural condition in Iran

Striking against censorshipCriticising political situation in IranIranian culture & western Literature