Born in 1962 in Tehran/Iran, is a scientist, performer, curator, dramaturge, poet, literary translator and human rights activist. He is co-founder of the Persian collection at the Vienna Main Library, Kuul-Forum for Art and Literature, ORQOA-Oriental Queer Organization Austria, Queer Base-Support for LGBTQ+ refugees, VIMÖ-Verein for intersex people Austria and PIÖ-Platform Intersex Austria.
With Sons of Love, Ghazi Rabihavi paints a comprehensive and representative picture of Iran in the years just before and immediately after the 1979 revolution have lost none of their relevance. Through the protagonists Nadji and Djamil, the readership gets to know various marginalized population groups and is thus constantly confronted with problems of social and national belonging while reading.
Translated from the Persian by Gorji Marzban & Thomas Geldner