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My Memoirs
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781997503408
Publisher: Asemana Books
Published: Mar 23 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Persian
My Memoirs - Volume I (Iran) is a powerful and deeply personal account of a woman's life shaped by love, literature, revolution, and exile. Spanning four transformative decades (1946-1985), Partow Nooriala traces her journey from childhood in mid-century Tehran to the turbulent cultural and political upheavals that reshaped modern Iran. Born into a family marked by military history, intellectual engagement, and strong women, Nouriala offers vivid recollections of pre-revolutionary Iran-its literary circles, artistic movements, and political developments. Through encounters with prominent writers, poets, filmmakers, and activists, she captures the spirit of a generation navigating modernism, artistic expression, censorship, and the fragile hope of social change. At the heart of the memoir lies an intimate narrative of womanhood: marriage, motherhood, artistic ambition, and the struggle for autonomy within shifting social norms. The book opens with the devastating loss of her beloved son in 2023-a tragedy that becomes the catalyst for revisiting and preserving a lifetime of memories. Blending personal reflection with cultural history, My Memoirs is both a testament to resilience and a rich portrait of Iran's intellectual and artistic life during one of its most consequential eras.
Partow Nooriala was born in Iran into a distinguished literary family in which poetry was both inheritance and destiny. Her two grandfathers, her mother, and her eldest brother were all poets and literary figures, and from adolescence she found herself immersed in the world of language, art, and intellectual inquiry. That early devotion would shape a lifetime of writing, criticism, and cultural engagement.
Over the course of her career, Nooriala has published twelve books spanning poetry, literary and art criticism, fiction, drama, and reflective prose. Her work moves fluidly between creative expression and critical thought, consistently exploring the relationship between art and consciousness, language and identity, memory and history.
Her poetry collections include Sahmi az Sāl-hā (A Share of the Years), first published in Tehran by Qoqnoos (1350/1971; reissued 1357/1978) and later republished in Los Angeles (2005); Az Cheshm-e Bād (Through the Eye of the Wind); Zaminam Digar Shod (My Earth Became Other); Selseleh bar Dast dar Borj-e Eqbāl; Az Dār tā Bahār; and Chahār Royesh (Four Growths), a bilingual Persian-English edition. Her literary works also include the short story collection Mesl-e Man (Like Me), the play Fardā-ye Mihan (Tomorrow of the Homeland), and the narrative work Mānā.
As a critic and intellectual voice, she has made enduring contributions through works such as Do Naqd (Two Critiques) and Honar va Āgāhi (Art and Consciousness), a widely circulated collection of essays and literary criticism that has gone through multiple editions in Iran, the United States, and Europe. She also collaborated with the poet Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou in the revival and publication of Mir'āt al-Boldān (Geography-ye Nāseri) in Tehran (1366/1987), demonstrating her engagement with Iran's intellectual and textual heritage.
In 1994, she was awarded the First Prize for Best Critic of the Year by the jury of the Baran Publishing Literary Competition in Sweden, recognizing her influential role in Persian literary criticism in the diaspora.
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