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and Constantine, but divorced in 1976. At the time of her marriage, she moved to London, where she became fluent in English; she was already fluent in Persian and French. Guppy wrote articles for major publications in both Britain and the United States. She also began singing and acting
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According to Shusha Guppy herself: "What has saddened me, and frankly made me angry, is not the money — as I said I wanted to make the film and financial rewards were not my aim — but the fact that all the credits were taken from me on
310:. At age 16 in 1951, Shusha was sent to Paris, where she studied French Literature and philosophy at Sorbonne, and also trained as an opera singer. In Paris she encountered artists, writers and poets such as 657:
from Iran's oral tradition. Many had never previously been published in written form. For twenty years, until 2005, she was the London editor of the American literary journal
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Guppy's first British release, in 1971, was an album of traditional Persian music, complementing her first album released in France fourteen years earlier.
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Guppy promoted Persian culture and history, and was a political commentator on relations between the West and the Islamic world. Guppy's first book,
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At present BBC offers no audio recording or a transcript of this programme. The website presents however an extensive bibliography.
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tribes in southern Iran. The soundtrack was later released in the USA. How much she contributed to the film is in dispute.
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led to his overthrow, describing a country with an Islamic way of life without dogmatism or fanaticism. Her last book,
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She married British writer, explorer, and art collector Nicholas Guppy in 1961. The couple had two sons,
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She used the stage name Shusha Assar from about 1962 to the early 1970s. Her credits include:
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Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters
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All are vinyl LPs except where noted. The years given are for the first release.
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She gave concerts in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1975 with
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of which the idea, the production, and the text were mine."
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The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia
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People of the Wind: Letter from Shusha Guppy to Milestone
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Also released on the Spanish label Vergara in 1963 as
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Three Journeys in the Levant: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
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The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood
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The Blindfold Horse: Memoirs of a Persian Childhood
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Retrieved 25 December 2010. 1052:, IMDb. Retrieved 25 December 2010. 653:(2005), is a collection of Persian 287: 271: 13: 1281:20th-century Iranian women writers 1276:20th-century Iranian women singers 1271:20th-century English women singers 1179:Shusha Guppy on her return to Iran 1111:Guppy, Shusha (18 February 2008). 1050:"People of the Wind" crew and cast 851:Stoddard, Martin (24 March 2008). 634:the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 14: 1367: 1233:, referred to in the obituary of 1144: 935: 893:from the original on 7 April 2008 870: 841: 805:, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2005, 731:; I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2007, 1316:English women singer-songwriters 1296:Persian-language singers of Iran 639:Grand prix des lectrices de Elle 520: 255:Grand prix des lectrices de Elle 23: 1261:20th-century British memoirists 1104: 1091: 1079: 1067: 919:. 28 March 2008. 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