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بانو مهشید امیرشاهی در سال ۱۳۱۶ خورشیدی در کرمانشاه چشم به جهان گشود. وی فرزند مولود خانلری و امیر امیرشاهی است. مهشید امیرشاهی از داستان‌نویسان معاصر ایران است.

Mahshid Amirshahi is a contemporary Iranian writer born in KERMANSHAH - IRAN. She is an active proponent of establishing a secular democracy in Iran, and as an opponent of the current Islamic republic, for which she moved into exile in France after the 1979 Iranian revolution

During the revolution, Amirshahi was one of the only politically active writers openly supporting Shahpour Bakhtiar. She even published an article in Ayandegan in January 1979, warning the danger of a religious regime, and stressing on the necessity of supporting Bakhtiar, whom she named a national hero and maverick. She has continued her long enduring support for Bakhtiar to date, saying "It's a great pain to be a maverick, but at the same time, it brings you pride, which is a cure to that pain


Mahshid Amir-Shahy occupies a place of choice in the gallery of Iranian authors. She started her career early in life and was soon hailed by art critics for her precocious talent as well as the high quality of her Writings. Her refined prose, which became more and more sophisticated from book to book, promotedher to one of the most prominent figures of contemporary Persian literature

Her lucid, colourful, precise, sensitive and inimitable style is as much suited to brush her characters as is in painting their surrounding world. The brilliance of her writing is partly due to her vast vocabulary and generosity of vernacular. She builds her characters up through their hold of the language and their dialogues, constructed with a mastery unequalled in Persian literature of our time

The diversity of Mahshid Amir-Shahy's works makes it impossible to classify her under any of those categories that befit so well other Iranian writers. Her force of character and artistic rigour have kept her from following the literary or political fashions that every now and again shake and shape the intelligentsia of Iran. She has always stayed aloof from these bustles that may bring quick and ephemeral fame for satisfying the demands of a migratory public, but at the end prove fatal to the artistic essence of the work

Her ties with literature and politics remind one of those of André Gide. As devoted as the latter to creating literature of great value, she does not hesitate to intervene in crucial public issues. She also has the courage to take a firm stand, at times very unpopular, as did Gide in the case of Dreyfus, or when faced with communism, or during the occupation of France

At the dawn of the revolution that brought Khomeiny to power, Mahshid Amir-Shahy's deep respect for human dignity, so palpable in her writings, made her take publicly position against the effervescence of fundamentalism and fend for the slender chance of a secular democracy with all her might. This standpoint forced her into exile, where she kept on writing her novels as well as her fight against the Islamism

Hezar Bisheh, a trilingual book (English, French, Persian), in which the actual languages used by the author herself have been maintained, contains a selection of her lectures, interviews and articles given and written in exile. Her humanism and attachment to promoting a secular democracy in Muslim countries are the leitmotiv of these elegant and powerful texts

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  • She is good.

  • An Iranian Jew with conscious loyalty to Zionism rather to Iran and it's people.

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