# Chahdortt Djavann

Chahdortt Djavann (Persian: شهدخت جوان; born 1967) is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. She regularly appears on French television and radio.

## Biography

Chahdortt Djavann was born in 1967 in Pahlavi Iran; her family was of Azerbaijani descent from an aristocratic line. She left Iran in 1991. First, she moved to Turkey, followed by a move to France in 1993. She attended the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris.
Her novel La Muette (Flammarion, 2008) is the confession of a fifteen-year-old girl sentenced to hang in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Djavann often was on the forefront of political and religious debates, including the veil debates in France, and she has spoken openly on the topic of immigration assimilation. In January 2006, Djavann was a guest on the French television program Culture et Dépendances, where she spoke on "assimilation as liberation".
She was awarded the Grand Prix de la Laïcité (2003) for secularism from the Comité Laïcité République [fr] association. In 2004, she was honored with the title of Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Her work has sparked both praise and criticism. Djavann was labeled as a experiencing "self-orientalism" by Laetitia Nanquette in the research article French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris (2009), published in the academic journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

## Publications

* Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Je Viens d'ailleurs [I Come From Elsewhere] (in French). Gallimard Education. ISBN 9782070300358.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Que pense Allah de l'Europe ? [What does Allah think of Europe?] (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070772025.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Abajo El Velo! (in Spanish). El Aleph Editores. ISBN 978-8-476-69670-5.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Autoportrait de l'autre (in French).
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2005). Bas les voiles ! (in French). Gallimard Education. ISBN 9782070321056.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2006). Comment peut-on être Français ? [How can you be French?]. ISBN 2-08-068916-9
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). A Mon Corps Défendant, l'Occident [Against My Will, the West] (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 9782081200999.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). L'Alphabet de l'espoir: les écrivains s'engagent. UNESCO.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (June 2007). "Islamismen truer demokratiet" [Islamism threatens democracy]. Udenrigs (in Danish) (2). doi:10.7146/udernigs.v0i2.119529 (inactive 2024-11-12).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2007). Pour une littérature-monde (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070785308.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2008). La Muette (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2081210530.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2009). Ne Négociez Pas Avec Le Régime Iranien [Do Not Negotiate With the Iranian Regime] (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 9782081233614.
* Djavann, Chahdortt; Halling, Kirsten (2010). "Entretien avec Chahdortt Djavann". Dalhousie French Studies. 92 (1): 139–144. ISSN 0711-8813. JSTOR 41705542. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2010). De zwijgster (in French). Sirene. ISBN 978-9-058-31498-7.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2011). Je Ne Suis Pas Celle Que Je Suis (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-081-22754-5.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2013). La Dernière Séance (in French). Fayard. ISBN 9782213677569.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2012). Die Stumme. Das Taschenhörbuch (in German). Steinbach Sprechende. ISBN 978-3-869-74114-7.
* Chahdortt, Djavann (2015). Big daddy. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-85178-3. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2016). Les putes voilées n'iront jamais au paradis !. Grasset. ISBN 978-2246856979.
* Chahdortt, Djavann (2016). Comment Lutter Efficacement Contre L'Ideologie Islamique. Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-86298-7. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2016). Meester. Cargo. p. 272. ISBN 978-9-023-49479-9.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2018). Iran J'accuse !. Grasset.
* Djavann, Chahdortt (2021). Et ces êtres sans pénis ! [And those beings without penises!] (in French). Grasset. ISBN 9782246813682.