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- Shahrnush Parsipur, born 17 February 1946 in Tehran, died at 80 in Iran.
- She was imprisoned four times, including a four-year-seven-month detention in the 1980s.
- Her 1989 novel Women Without Men inspired a 2009 film and was longlisted for the International Booker prize after its 2026 UK release.
- Exiled in the United States since 1994, she will publish Prison Memoir in 2027 and Touba and the Meaning of Night in 2028.
