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Events on Sunday 17 February 1946 2
1946 – presentShahrnush ParsipurIranian NovelistIranian novelist, short-story writer and translator whose magical realist fiction about women's lives under patriarchal oppression made her one of the most important and persecuted writers in modern Persian literature. Imprisoned four times under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic for her writing and political dissent, she lived the last 32 years of her life in exile in California. Her most celebrated work, Women Without Men (1990), was banned in Iran, adapted into a Venice Film Festival award-winning film, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize in the year of her death.
1946Shahrnush Parsipur born in TehranBorn Shahrnush Parsipur in Tehran, Iran, the daughter of Ali Parsipur, a judge and lawyer, and Fakhr al-Moluk Vala, an educated homemaker. She began writing at the age of thirteen.