Shiva Rahbaran is a writer and researcher interested in the relation between freedom and art. She has explored this topic in a variety of different contexts ranging from contemporary English novel to post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and literature. She has published several books and articles on this topic.

Her latest book Iranian Cinema Uncensored was praised by the leading cultural critic Hamid Dabashi as ‘a beautiful read and full of joyous insights’.

Shiva Rahbaran is also a fiction writer. Her short story ‘Massoumeh’ won the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Currently, she is working on a novel about the life of an Iranian family during the Islamic Revolution.

My Literary Agent
Peter Frasers + Dunlop
Lisette Verhagen
lverhagen@pfd.co.uk