Kayhan Life, Darius KADIVAR:

Saïdeh Pakravan, the award-winning fiction and non-fiction author, was born in Iran to a French-speaking family that included generations of successful diplomats and high-ranking bureaucrats. She is the granddaughter of another Iranian author, the highly regarded historian Emineh Pakravan, who wrote Le Prince Sans Histoire (Prix Rivarol, 1951). Her father, General Hassan Pakravan, a prominent diplomat with a military background, was tragically executed in the immediate aftermath of the 1978-79 Revolution.

Her written collection, The Arrest of Hoveyda: Stories of the Iranian Revolution was published in 1998. Her novel Azadi: Protest in the Streets of Tehran (2011) was serialised in a Persian blog before being translated into French by the Belfond publishing house in 2014.

Today, Saïdeh Pakravan lives between Paris and Washington, D.C. In a recent interview, Kayhan Life asked her about her life and writings.

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