🔶 Shahrnush Parcipour, a prominent writer of Iranian literature, has died Shahrnush Parcipour, a prominent Iranian literature writer, translator, and one of the outstanding figures of contemporary Iranian literature, died on Friday, July 3, 2026 (12 Tir 1405), in one of the hospitals on the outskirts of San Francisco, in the United States. Her family and friends announced that Parcipour had been hospitalized since last week, following a heart attack. Parcipour, who was born on 28 Bahman 1324 in Tehran, was among the writers whose works repeatedly faced censorship and a ban on publication in Iran. Her best-known works include the novels “Women Without Men,” “Tuba and the Meaning of Night,” and “The Dog and the Long Winter.” She worked for the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization before the Revolution, but resigned in protest against the execution of Khosrow Golsorkhi and Keramatollah Daneshian. After the Revolution as well, she was arrested several times and spent years in prison without an official ruling—an experience that was later reflected in the book “Prison Memoirs.” The novel “Women Without Men,” which was translated into various languages, later became the basis for a film of the same name directed by Shirin Neshat.