Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi ( fa, فتانه حاجسیدجوادی, also
Romanized
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as “Fattāne(h) Hāj-Seyyed-Javādī”; born 1945) is a best selling
Iranian novelist.
Born in
Kazerun, Seyed Javadi studied in
Tehran and
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
, after which she taught for many years. At the beginning of the 1990s she translated
Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel. Her first novel, ''The Morning of the Hangover'' published in German as ''Der Morgen der Trunkenheit'' was a bestseller in Iran
for four years running and was in its 29th printing in 2002.
She went on to write a collection of short stories: ''In der Abgeschiedenheit des Schlafs'' (In the Lonesomeness of Sleep).
''The Morning of the Hangover'' tells the story of an aristocratic woman who marries a carpenter to defy her family
and its publication was a turning point for women writers. Strict rules imposed after the
1979 Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...
funneled expression which was unacceptable in public life into fictional characters. Javadi's ''The Morning of the Hangover'' contended that social themes could be explored even within the bounds of censorship.
The English edition of the book is published under the title of ''The Morning After'' by
Firouz Media in 2022
Selected works
* fa, بامداد خمار, italic=yes (1998) (in Persian)
* ''Der Morgen der Trunkenheit'' (2000) (in German)
* fa, در خلوت خواب, italic=yes (2001) (in Persian)
* ''In der Abgeschiedenheit des Schlafs: Erzählungen'' (2004) (in German)
References
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Iranian women novelists
Iranian novelists
20th-century Iranian women writers
Living people
21st-century Iranian women writers
1945 births
People from Kazerun