This document summarizes 24 major Iranian writers living outside of Iran, with 10 living in the USA and 7 in Canada. It provides brief biographies of 6 prominent writers, including their works and accomplishments. Hamid Dabashi and Azar Nafisi are internationally renowned for their 20+ books and memoirs critically examining Iranian and Islamic culture and society. Other writers like Shahrnush Parsipur, Reza Barahani, Iraj Rahmani and Mehri Yalfani have published novels, poems, and short stories conveying Iranian national values and criticizing censorship and politics in Iran.

1. Freelance Iranian writersin North America

2. Successful people do not wait for opportunities to turn their goals into reality; rather, they make their opportunities, because they are perfectly clear about the kind of life they wish to create. Brian Tracy

3. Major Iranian Writers outside Iran Total: 24 Women: 14 Men: 10 Canada: 7 USA: 10 Other Countries: 7

4. Some Prominent Writersin North America Hamid Dabashi: USA AzarNafisi: USA ShahrnushParsipur: USA Reza Barahani: Canada Iraj Rahmani: Canada MehriYalfani: Canada

5. Hamid Dabashi (1951- ) An internationally renowned cultural critic and award-winning author 20 books in English Authority in Islam Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema; Iran: A People Interrupted; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. His books translated into many languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Danish, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Urdu and Catalan

6. Azar Nafisi (1947- ) 7 English Books Notable work: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books; translated into 32 languagess It was on the New York Times bestseller list over 117 weeks “Remarkable…an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction.”– The New York Times

7. Shahrnush Parsipur (1946- ) Novelist, 11 novels in Persian 5 translations Her novel Tuba and the Meaning of Night translated into English, German, Swedish and Italian Her novel Women without Men translated into Spanish and Malayalam

8. Reza Barahani (1935- ) Novelist A former President of PEN Canada 54 books in English and Persian Crowned Cannibals, a collection of prose and poetry Les Saisons en Enfer du Jeune Ayyaz, a novel God's Shadow: Prison Poems, collection of poems based on a period of 102 days spent in solitary confinement in Iran, during the time of the Shah

9. Iraj Rahmani Poet and novelist Seven books: poetry, short fiction and three novels. Translated his novel into English: The Incident Happens as Written Translated Canadian short stories and plays from French and English to Persian

10. Mehri Yalfani Poet and novelist Persian and English Books Afsaneh’s Moon (novel): published in Canada by McGillan Books Parastoo and Two Sisters (collection of short stories, English)

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13. Their Common Representation Conveying national or moral values of Iranian culture Giving readers an inside look at the present cultural condition in Iran Striking against censorship Criticising political situation in Iran Iranian culture & western Literature