Shahriar Mandanipour

Marie Ostby (Connecticut College)

Ed. by Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.1.1: Iranian/ Persian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales)

Dates

Born 15 Feb 1957

Places

Active in Iran

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Writer / Author

Resources

Mandanipour's Works

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Shahriar Mandanipour is a prolific Iranian novelist, short story writer, essayist, children’s book author, and editor who has been a major force on the literary and cultural scene in Iran for decades. His ability to publish his politically critical writing has often been curtailed by government censorship under the Islamic Republic’s various leaders. His major international breakthrough came with the auto-fictional novel

Censoring an Iranian Love Story

(2009).

Mandanipour was born in 1957 in Shiraz, Iran. After attending primary and secondary school there, he moved to Tehran in 1975 to study Political Science at Tehran University. He was in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which was a formative experience that set the stage for the intense emotional character of his writing.

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Citation: Ostby, Marie . "Shahriar Mandanipour". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 August 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13834, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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