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Saïdeh Pakravan - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Saïdeh Pakravan
- Saïdeh Pakravan, born in Iran in a French-speaking family, is a French-American author of fiction and non-fiction, a poet, film critic, and political blogger.
- She has lived between Washington, D.C.
- and Paris.
- She is the granddaughter of Emineh Pakravan., author of historical novels and studies, including Le Prince Sans Histoire (Prix Rivarol, 1951) and part of a family of generations of diplomats and high-ranking officials of many interests, especially, literature.
- Her father is General Hassan Pakravan.
- Saïdeh Pakravan started reading at age four and knew early on that she would become a writer.
- At eighteen she wrote her first French-language novel, Celle qui rêvait, and published it in installments. From 1994 to 2001, she was editor-in-chief of Chanteh, a cultural and political English-language quarterly for second-generation Iranians.
- Her collection, The Arrest of Hoveyda: Stories of the Iranian Revolution was published in 1998.
- Numerous short stories, poems and essays by her have published in American and British literary journals.
- Her self-published novel Azadi, Protest in the Streets of Tehran, (2011) came out in installments on a Persian blog she launched for the purpose. In late 2014 the French-language manuscript of Azadi, which Ms.
- Pakravan translated herself, was picked up by Belfond and published in France the next year to critical acclaim.
- In one review (Le Figaro, February 2015), she told the interviewer, "if one is amenable to compromise, one can live in Iran, and relatively well" In her review of the book for the cultural blog Eklektika, Muriel Barthe said, "It took us one night to get through this book, one night to experience a piece of history and make a new discovery of a country.".Other novels by Saïdeh Pakravan (all of which were originally written in English) include La Trêve, Le Principe du Désir,and L’Émir, (Belfond 2018.) Her latest novel, Cent Voyages, will be published by the same publisher in January 2019.
