{"id":14583,"date":"2021-12-23T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14583"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:26:03","slug":"baharan-baniahmadi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/baharan-baniahmadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Baharan Baniahmadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Baharan Baniahmadi is an Iranian actress and writer based in Montreal since 2018. She studied theatre at the Art University of Tehran, and art and philosophy at Universit\u00e9 Paris 8. Her performance career includes the stage, film, and television in English, French, Persian and Arabic. Baniahmadi published a memoir, a novel and short stories in Iran. She makes her English language debut with the publication in the spring of 2022 of her allegorical novel Prophetess<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prophetess: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Montreal: Esplanade Books\/V\u00e9hicule Press, 2022.
PS8603.A622 P76 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction, in which hair covers her face every time a man approaches her. One day in school, when an imam gets too close, she faints. After Sara reawakens, classmates show her video of her speaking freely and eloquently while unconscious\u2026 in Polish. These are only the first of many unexpected developments in Sara\u2019s life, as she grapples with how to live with her sister\u2019s memory in a world that abuses women from a very early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prophetess<\/em> is a fearless novel of gripping and surreal turns that push the limits of the imagination in their collision of tradition and nonconformity. Baharan Baniahmadi has crafted a wild, allegorical interrogation of trauma, women\u2019s rights, and religious tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Literary Award for Fiction <\/a>(Quebec Writers’ Federation)(Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Baniahmadi personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher V\u00e9hicule Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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