Shiva Rahbaran (born November 28, 1970) is an Iranian writer and researcher.

Life

Shiva Rahbaran was born in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

, and was eight years old when the Shah was exiled in 1979. She and her family left Iran for Germany in 1984. She studied literature and political science at the

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ( HHU; ), named after German poet Heinrich Heine, is a public university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which was founded in 1965. It is the successor organization to Düsseldorf's Medical Academy of ...

,An interview with Shiva Rahbaran
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'', 1 January 2017. Accessed 19 December 2020. before completing a PhD supervised by

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, on the writer

Nicholas Mosley Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (25 June 1923 – 28 February 2017), was a British peer, novelist and biographer. Two of his volumes of biography covered the life of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fasc ...

. The study was later published by

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. After living in

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and

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for twelve years, Rahbaran moved to London in 2013. Shiva Rahbaran is a contributor to BBC Persian, BBC World and Iran International. Her short story 'Massoumeh' won the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Works

* ''Five Past Midnight in Bhopal'', 2002 * ''The paradox of freedom: a study of Nicholas Mosley's intellectual development in his novels and other writings''. Rochester : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006. * ''Nicholas Mosley's Life and Art: A Biography in Six Interviews'' (Dalkey Archive Scholarly), 2009 * ''Iranian writers uncensored: freedom, democracy, and the Word in contemporary Iran''. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012. * * 'Massoumeh: An Iranian Family in Times of Revolution'. ''Wasafiri'', Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 74–76.

References

External links

Author's website

List of author's books, Thriftbooks

Author Shiva Rahbaran
at ''www.jadaliyya.com''
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Shiva Rahbaran's Interview with Simin Behbahāni
in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahbaran, Shiva 1970 births Living people Iranian writers Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Writers from Tehran Iranian emigrants to Germany Iranian emigrants to England