Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian novelist behind Women Without Men, dies aged 80
The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80.A pioneer of women’s literature in Iran, Parsipur excoriated the country’s patriarchal culture in novels including Women Without…
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80”.