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Chahdortt Djavann | |
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شهدخت جوان | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Education | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
Occupation(s) | Contemporary writer, novelist, essayist [1] |
Chahdortt Djavann ( Persian: شهدخت جوان; born 1967) [2] is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. [3] Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. [4] [5] [6] She regularly appears on French television and radio. [7]
Chahdortt Djavann was born in 1967 in Pahlavi Iran; her family was of Azerbaijani descent from an aristocratic line. [5] [8] [9] She left Iran in 1991. First, she moved to Turkey, followed by a move to France in 1993. [10] [5] She attended the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. [5] [11]
Her novel La Muette ( Flammarion, 2008) is the confession of a fifteen-year-old girl sentenced to hang in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [12]
Djavann often was on the forefront of political and religious debates, including the veil debates in France, and she has spoken openly on the topic of immigration assimilation. [13] [14] In January 2006, Djavann was a guest on the French television program Culture et Dépendances, where she spoke on "assimilation as liberation". [15]
She was awarded the Grand Prix de la Laïcité (2003) for secularism from the Comité Laïcité République association. [16] In 2004, she was honored with the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. [16]
Her work has sparked both praise and criticism. [17] Djavann was labeled as a experiencing " self-orientalism" by Laetitia Nanquette in the research article French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris (2009), published in the academic journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. [18]
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Chahdortt Djavann | |
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شهدخت جوان | |
![]() Djavann (2012) in Paris | |
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Education | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
Occupation(s) | Contemporary writer, novelist, essayist [1] |
Chahdortt Djavann ( Persian: شهدخت جوان; born 1967) [2] is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. [3] Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. [4] [5] [6] She regularly appears on French television and radio. [7]
Chahdortt Djavann was born in 1967 in Pahlavi Iran; her family was of Azerbaijani descent from an aristocratic line. [5] [8] [9] She left Iran in 1991. First, she moved to Turkey, followed by a move to France in 1993. [10] [5] She attended the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. [5] [11]
Her novel La Muette ( Flammarion, 2008) is the confession of a fifteen-year-old girl sentenced to hang in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [12]
Djavann often was on the forefront of political and religious debates, including the veil debates in France, and she has spoken openly on the topic of immigration assimilation. [13] [14] In January 2006, Djavann was a guest on the French television program Culture et Dépendances, where she spoke on "assimilation as liberation". [15]
She was awarded the Grand Prix de la Laïcité (2003) for secularism from the Comité Laïcité République association. [16] In 2004, she was honored with the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. [16]
Her work has sparked both praise and criticism. [17] Djavann was labeled as a experiencing " self-orientalism" by Laetitia Nanquette in the research article French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris (2009), published in the academic journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. [18]