Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, tortured and spent eight years in prison. In 1993, she fled to England. Her prison memoir is being crowdfunded by Unbound publisher. Nasrin’s stories, poems, articles and translations appeared in Exiled Writers Ink; Modern Poetry in Translation series; Write to be Counted, Resistance Anthology 2017; Words And Women 2017; 100 poems for human rights 2009; Hafiz, Goethe and the Gingko 2015; Over Land, Over Sea, Poems for those seeking refuge 2015; A novel, Temptation, based on the true stories of some male prisoners who survived the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners was published in Farsi in 2008.
Author: Nasrin Parvaz
“Writing Is My Means to Fight Back”: An Interview With Nasrin Parvaz
Nasrin Parvaz is a writer, artist and activist from Iran. Since fleeing to the UK in 1993, she has published or translated fiction, non-fiction and poetry in Farsi, English and Italian, as well as being a longstanding member of Freedom From Torture’s Write to Life group. The first publication in English of Nasrin’s prison memoir is currently being crowdfunded online by the publishers Unbound. Continue reading “Writing Is My Means to Fight Back”: An Interview With Nasrin Parvaz
Woman’s Struggle In Iran; A Prison Memoir
Woman’s struggle in Iran is the story of my imprisonment for eight years by the Islamic government of Iran. Continue reading Woman’s Struggle In Iran; A Prison Memoir
Story Published on Words and Women: Four
Words And Women: Four is the latest showcase collection of short prose by women writers, nationally over the age of 40 and at any age in the East of England. The memoir, fiction, and creative non-fiction inside reflects the brilliance, boldness and depth of women’s contemporary writing.
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Live Encounters: February 2017 Poems by Nasrin Parvaz
Two Poems on the Poetry Feast December 2016
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Live Encounters (October): Poems from Nasrin
Two poems from Nasrin Parvaz on Live Encounters October issue
Live Encounters Selection: Nasrin Parvaz Poems
Mulberries
Translation by Hubert Moore, Nasrin Parvaz
Have you ever seen
mulberries,
how their red juice
stains the earth where they fell?
Nothing is as painful as falling.
I’ve seen so many workers
fall from buildings
and become mulberries. Continue reading Mulberries
Dear Fahimeh
Translation by Hubert Moore, Nasrin Parvaz
That day,
that hot day in July,
when the Evin loudspeakers
called out your beautiful name and your lips
smiled, your eyes said to your friends,
‘So today is the day.’ Continue reading Dear Fahimeh