Bøger af Moniro Ravanipour

This book details the daily life of the author, including meetings with international writers, notes from story-writing workshops, her responses to events that have taken place in her homeland of Iran and the rest of the world as well as her critiques of books she has read and films she has seen.

In this collection of short stories, you will read six stories about immigration, while the rest of the stories deal with the struggles and endeavors of human beings in a closed society. This collection was published in Iran in 2001, but it was banned one year later, after its 4th reprint. The well-known short story "The Frankfurt airport's woman" is about a writer who is going to Germany to attend the "Iran after Elections" conference in Berlin, commonly referred to as the Berlin Conference. Because of her participation in the Berlin Conference, Moniro Ravaipour, the author of this collection, went through ten months of entanglement in the justice department of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Shipwrecked is a collection of nine Persian short stories by Moniro Ravanipour which were written in Iran. Main themes of the books are loneliness, doubt, everyday life and immigration. Main characters in most of the stories are women who are not satisfied with the status quo. All the stories in this collection mirror real life and are considered as realistic, except the Shipwrecked which is written in magic realism.

Lovers of the Old Testament is a collection of six short stories by Moniro Ravanipour. The stories share a creative use of Persian Mythology elements as well as a general theme of loneliness and alienation in the lives of immigrants rooted up from their homelands.