In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated from the 1979 revolution to the present. She looks at prose productions in particular, analysing several genres and media.0Taking Iran as a starting point, Nanquette explo…
Analyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora, in relation to the social, economic and political fields.
Ghazāla ʿAlīzāda (1947–96) was born in Mashhad, the only child of a wealthy family. Her father was a merchant and her mother a writer who hosted literary circles with prominent writers of the time. ʿAlīzāda studied at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tehran Universit…
Hūshang Gulshīrī (1938–2000) was born to a working-class family in Isfahan. Having received a degree in Persian literature, he taught in schools in Isfahan and its surroundings. He began to publish in journals in the late 1950s. Intellectual friendship with the poet and noted mo…
Modern Persian fiction includes writings in the Persian language in the genres of the novel (rumān) and the short story (dastān-i kūtāh) , as well as sub-genres such as novellas, romances, and other narrative works in prose. Didactic genres, such as fictional travelogues, are ex…