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Chahdortt Djavann

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
شهدخت جوان
Djavann (2012) in Paris
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Iran
EducationSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Occupation(s)Contemporary writer, novelist, essayist[1]

Biography edit

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 [fr] 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]

Publications edit

  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Je Viens d'ailleurs [I Come From Elsewhere] (in French). Gallimard Education. ISBN 9782070300358.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Que pense Allah de l'Europe ? [What does Allah think of Europe?] (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070772025.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Abajo El Velo! (in Spanish). El Aleph Editores. ISBN 978-8-476-69670-5.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Autoportrait de l'autre (in French).[19]
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2005). Bas les voiles ! (in French). Gallimard Education. ISBN 9782070321056.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2006). Comment peut-on être Français ? [How can you be French?].[14] ISBN 2-08-068916-9
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). A Mon Corps Défendant, l'Occident [Against My Will, the West] (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 9782081200999.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). L'Alphabet de l'espoir: les écrivains s'engagent. UNESCO.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (June 2007). "Islamismen truer demokratiet" [Islamism threatens democracy]. Udenrigs (in Danish) (2).
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). Pour une littérature-monde (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070785308.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2008). La Muette (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2081210530.[20][12]
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2009). Ne Négociez Pas Avec Le Régime Iranien [Do Not Negotiate With the Iranian Regime] (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 9782081233614.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt; Halling, Kirsten (2010). "Entretien avec Chahdortt Djavann". Dalhousie French Studies. 92 (1): 139–144. ISSN 0711-8813. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2010). De zwijgster (in French). Sirene. ISBN 978-9-058-31498-7.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2011). Je Ne Suis Pas Celle Que Je Suis (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-081-22754-5.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2013). La Dernière Séance (in French). Fayard. ISBN 9782213677569.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2012). Die Stumme. Das Taschenhörbuch (in German). Steinbach Sprechende. ISBN 978-3-869-74114-7.
  • Chahdortt, Djavann (2015). Big daddy. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-85178-3. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2016). Les putes voilées n'iront jamais au paradis !. Grasset. ISBN 978-2246856979.
  • Chahdortt, Djavann (2016). Comment Lutter Efficacement Contre L'Ideologie Islamique. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-86298-7. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2016). Meester. Cargo. p. 272. ISBN 978-9-023-49479-9.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2018). Iran J'accuse !. Grasset.
  • Djavann, Chahdortt (2021). Et ces êtres sans pénis ! [And those beings without penises!] (in French). Grasset. ISBN 9782246813682.

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References edit

  1. ^ Donadio, Rachel (2015-01-08). "Before Paris Shooting, Authors Tapped Into Mood of a France 'Homesick at Home'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  2. ^ Halling, Kirsten (2010). "Entretien avec Chahdortt Djavann". Dalhousie French Studies. 92: 139–144. ISSN 0711-8813. JSTOR 41705542.
  3. ^ "Chahdortt Djavann, l'enragée tranquille". Le Figaro (in French). 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  4. ^ "« Et ces êtres sans pénis ! »: Chahdortt Djavann prend sa revanche". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  5. ^ a b c d Vaillant, Luc Le. "Chahdortt Djavann, démolir les mollahs". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  6. ^ "Comment lutter efficacement contre l'idéologie islamique?" [How to fight effectively against Islamic ideology?]. MondesFrancophones.com (in French). December 11, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  7. ^ Nanquette, Laetitia (2017-02-28). Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-78673-120-3.
  8. ^ Raspiengeas, Jean-Claude (May 8, 2015). "Chahdortt Djavann or the difficult exile". La Croix. Bayard Presse. Archived from the original on November 21, 2016.
  9. ^ "Chahdortt Djavann: "Les plus grands romans sont des romans politiques"". Radio France (in French). 2021-04-06. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  10. ^ "Chahdortt Djavann". Dictionnaire créatrices. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  11. ^ "Authors: Chahdortt Djavann". Lecteurs.com. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  12. ^ a b Lawn, Lesley (2014-08-09). "SILENT VOICES - Lesley Lawn on translating Chahdortt Djavann's "La muette"". And Other Stories. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  13. ^ Roger, Fabrice (2021-01-02). "Unrepresentative representatives: what it takes to be a "Muslim" commentator in France following the example of Mohamed Sifaoui and Chahdortt Djavann". Modern & Contemporary France. 29 (1): 41–56. doi:10.1080/09639489.2020.1831462. ISSN 0963-9489. S2CID 233873513.
  14. ^ a b Toonder, Jeanette den (2018). "Writing in the Feminine: Identity, Language, and Intercultural Dialogue in Chahdortt Djavann's Comment peut-on être français? (2006)". DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies. 5 (2): 7–22. doi:10.11116/digest.5.2.1. ISSN 2593-0273. JSTOR 10.11116/digest.5.2.1.
  15. ^ Gemie, Sharif (2010). "Chahdortt Djavann: Assimilation as Liberation". French Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France (1 ed.). University of Wales Press. pp. 48–65. ISBN 978-0-7083-2209-3. JSTOR j.ctt9qhjzw.
  16. ^ a b "Sur les rayons des libraires - Les putes voilées n'iront jamais au paradis -Chahdortt Djavann - Roman - Grasset" [On the shelves of booksellers - Veiled whores will never go to heaven - Chahdortt Djavann - Roman - Grasset]. Questions de citoyens (in French). April 24, 2016. Archived from the original on November 21, 2016.
  17. ^ Bryant, Elizabeth (1 January 2005). "Muslim writers in Europe tests limits, sparking praise and criticism". Newspapers.com. The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia). pp. F1–F5. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  18. ^ Nanquette, Laetitia (2009-08-01). "French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 29 (2): 269–280. doi:10.1215/1089201X-2009-009. ISSN 1089-201X.
  19. ^ Djavann, Chahdortt (2009). Autoportrait De L'Autre. Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-070-36022-2. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  20. ^ Chatzidimitriou, Ioanna (2012). "Speaking Silence: Translation in Chahdortt Djavann's "La Muette"". MLN. 127 (5): 1206–1225. doi:10.1353/mln.2012.0128. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 43611286. S2CID 161480263.

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