Ezzat Goushegir Explained

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 playwriting 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 ArtHall in Tehran. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa.^[1]

Since coming to the United States she has been writing in English and Persian. Several theater companies U.S., Canada, China, England, Sweden, and Iran have produced her plays. She currently contributes a weekly memoir and many other writings to Shahrvand, the Persian-language magazine based in Toronto, and since 2003 she has taught 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 to 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 a member of “The Dramatists Guild of America” and “The Association of Writers and Writing Program”.

Works/Publications

• The Bride of Acacias^[3]
• Book: Gousheigir, Ezzat . Ezzat Goushegir . 2011 . Afghanistan: A Window on the Tragedy . Oliver Arts & Open Press . 160 . 978-0-981-98917-4.
• 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
• Book: Adel . Kevin N . Gousheigir . Ezzat . Ezzat Goushegir . 2010 . The Boy and The Red Balloon . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 32 . 978-1-450-57914-8.
• Goushegir . Ezzat . 2006 . Women's Prison, Manijeh Hekmat (director), 2002. . Journal of Middle East Women's Studies . 2 . 1 . 138–140 . 10.2979/MEW.2006.2.1.138 .
• Maryam’s Pregnancy (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) Vol. 20 Issue 1, p181-188, 8p.
• Now Smile^[8] (anthologized in Witness and Crawdad in 2006)
• Beginning of Bloom
• The Woman Reluctantly Said Goodbye (Persian Edition), 2013.^[9]

External links

• Official website of the author
• Author's Blog
• Research Conversation | Nasrin Navab and Ezzat Goushegir on “My Name is Inanna”
• Playwright: Ezzat Goushegir
• List of Ezzat Goushegir's other literary works
• Ezzat Goushegir's profile at DePaul University, Chicago
• Ezzat Goushegir- International Writing Program
• Ezzat Goushegir at Poetry Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Daily Palette . 2009-04-13.
2. Web site: Newsletter DePaul University, School for New Learning Online . Spring Quarter 2008-2009. 2009-04-13.
3. Web site: Ezzat Goushegir . 26 January 2023 . Poetry Foundation .
4. Book: Iranians in Chicagoland (IL) (Images of America) . Hamid Akbari and Azar Khounani. 0-7385-3390-4. 2005. Arcadia.
5. Web site: Book Search Result . www.ferdosi.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071014023710/http://ferdosi.com/Publisher/PublisherSrchRes.asp?intBkPblrCode=10000001&intBKAllSubjs=1 . 2007-10-14.
6. Web site: BooksinPersian.
7. Web site: Ezzat Goushegir - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays . www.doollee.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080921051312/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/goushegir-ezzat.html . 2008-09-21.
8. Web site: BooksinEnglish.
9. Book: The Woman Reluctantly Said Goodbye . 978-1490929484 . Persian . Goushegir . Ezzat . 6 July 2013 . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform .