Ezzat Goushegir

Ezzat Goushegir (Persian: عزت گوشه‌گیر) is a fiction writer and playwright born in Iran and living in the U.S. since 1986.

She has published four books in Persian, including two collections of short stories.

She began her play writing career in 1976, when her first play "Beginning of Bloom" was produced for Iranian National Television followed by the “Middle East Odyssey” at Culture and Art Hall in Tehran. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa.[1]

Since coming to the United States she has been writing both in English and Persian. Her plays have been produced by a number of theater companies U.S., Canada, China, England, Sweden and Iran. She currently contributes a weekly memoir and many other writings to Shahrvand, the Persian-language magazine based in Toronto, and since 2003 she teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.[2] She is a regular contributor to literary journals, and her writing has appeared in publications in Iran, Europe, and Canada. She was a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City International Writing Program, contributed in the Conference of International Women’s Playwrights, was a Writer-in- Residence at the University of Maryland, also has been a co-director and dramaturge of a reading series at New Federal Theatre in New York. She is the member of “The Dramatists Guild of America” and “The Association of Writers and Writing Program”.

Work

  • The Bride of Acacias[3]
  • Behind the Curtains, the Story of Tahereh (recipient at a

Norman Felton award)[4]

  • The Woman, the Room, and Love[5]
  • ... And Suddenly the Leopard Cried: WOMAN[6]
  • Metamorphosis,[7] a collection of two plays
  • Maryam’s Pregnancy[7] (Won a Richard Maibaum award)
  • Migration in the Sun a book of poetry.
  • Medea Was Born in Fallujah (anthologized in Witness and Crawdad in 2006)
  • Now Smile[8] (anthologized in Witness and Crawdad in 2006)
  • Beginning of Bloom
  • The Woman Reluctantly Said Goodbye (Persian Edition), 2013.[9]

References

  1. "The Daily Palette". Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  2. "Newsletter DePaul University, School for New Learning Online" (PDF). Spring Quarter 2008-2009. Retrieved 2009-04-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. "Ezzat Goushegir". Poetry Foundation.
  4. Hamid Akbari and Azar Khounani (2005). Iranians in Chicagoland (IL) (Images of America). ISBN 0-7385-3390-4.
  5. "Book Search Result". www.ferdosi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14.
  6. "BooksinPersian".
  7. "Ezzat Goushegir - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays". www.doollee.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-21.
  8. "BooksinEnglish".
  9. "The Woman Reluctantly Said Goodbye (Persian Edition)". Amazon.
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