As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, A/P/A is proud to host Iranian feminist writer Shahrnush Parsipur. Her memoir KISSING THE SWORD captures the surreal experience of serving time without being charged with a crime and witnessing the systematic destruction of any and all opposition to fundamentalist power. Parsipur, one of the great novelists of modern Iran, known for her magic realist style, tells a story here that is all too real. She mines her own painful memories of her imprisonment to create an urgent call for one of the most basic human rights: freedom of expression.
Shahrnush will be joined by Manijeh Moradian, Ph.D. student in the NYU Program of American Studies and co-director of the Association of Iranian American Writers (AIAW), and Laura Whitehorn, activist and former political prisoner.
SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR is the author of Touba and the Meaning of Night, among many books. Born in Iran in 1946, she began her career as a fiction writer and a producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. She now lives in exile in California
LAURA WHITEHORN has been a political activist since the 1960s. She spent 14 years in prison for the Resistance Conspiracy case. Released in 1999, she lives in New York City. She is editor of THE WAR BEFORE, also available from Feminist Press.
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KISSING THE SWORD is available at feministpress.org
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