Khāṭirāt-i man: Jild-i avval, Īrān Persiska (Farsi) 2026

My Memoirs – Volume I (Iran) by Partow Nooriala is a deeply personal memoir that chronicles the author’s life through four transformative decades, from 1946 to 1985. Blending autobiography with cultural history, the book traces Nooriala’s journey from childhood in Tehran to the intellectual, artistic, and political upheavals that shaped modern Iran.

Born into a literary family, Nooriala grew up surrounded by poetry, art, and intellectual discussion. Her memoir offers vivid reflections on Iran’s literary circles, artistic movements, and social changes before and after the 1979 Revolution. Through her encounters with writers, poets, filmmakers, and activists, she portrays a generation engaged with modernity, artistic expression, censorship, and hopes for social transformation.

At the center of the memoir is an intimate account of womanhood, exploring marriage, motherhood, creativity, and the search for personal independence within changing social conditions. The book begins with the profound loss of her son in 2023, an event that leads her to revisit and preserve the memories of a lifetime.

Partow Nooriala is a poet, writer, and literary critic whose work spans poetry, fiction, drama, and literary studies. She has published twelve books, including poetry collections such as A Share of the Years, Through the Eye of the Wind, and My Earth Became Other, as well as critical works including Art and Consciousness and Two Critiques. Her contributions to Persian literature and criticism have been recognized internationally, including the First Prize for Best Critic of the Year from the Baran Publishing Literary Competition in Sweden in 1994.

My Memoirs – Volume I (Iran) is both a personal testimony and a valuable portrait of Iran’s modern literary and cultural history, documenting the experiences of an artist whose life has been shaped by poetry, social change, and exile.