Paxima Mojavezi
Author, Journalist
Books
Paxima Mojavezi's acquaintance with books and her discovery of the world of words began in her family's library in Tehran during her childhood. She developed a passion for storytelling early on, filling several notebooks with her tales and novels, which were read only by her school friends. She published her first collection of short stories at the age of 21.
To date, she has published six books, including four collections of short stories, a research book on love in the works of Sadegh Hedayat, and a travelogue about India. She states that writing is the one thing she will never give up.
About me
Paxima Mojavezi, an author and journalist, was born in 1978 in Tehran, the capital of Iran. She completed her university education with a master's degree in journalism in Iran and then went to India for her Ph.D. in the sociology of literature. Her doctoral dissertation focused on "The Social Movement of Iranian Women in Novels." After earning her Ph.D., she returned to Iran, where she taught at the university level and continued her work in journalism.
However, due to increasing pressures and censorship in the media and growing restrictions in academic teaching, she eventually left Iran and emigrated to the United States. She currently works as a journalist with Persian-language media outside of Iran and continues her literary writing and research.
Press & Interview
Due to Paxima Mojavezi's engagement in journalism, numerous reports, interviews, and articles by her have been published in Persian-language media.
In this section, you can find several notes and articles introducing and reviewing her books, as well as a few interviews with Paxima about storytelling.
Hidden (2016)
Films
The film "HIdden" directed by Khorshid Najm is an adaptation of the story "Mirror" by Paxima Mojavezi from the book "Design of Hallucination."
This film was selected for the Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2016.
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