Works

Explore Ghazi Rabihavi’s original works, named editions, theatre repertoire and screen credits, with distinct sources and collaborators.

Original work families

1. Mon beau garçon

   Play · Not established

   Marie Corcelle’s Fild article names a Rabihavi play under this French title. Her synopsis concerns a mother whose son faces pressure to change sex because he is homosexual. The article supplies a reported dramatic subject rather than an inspected script, publication record or completed production.

   French title used by the reported conversation. An original-language title and authorised English title have not been established.

2. Incident at the Central Workshop

   Story collection · Persian

   Baang’s career profile describes five stories about Abadan refinery workers. The collection places working lives at the beginning of Rabihavi’s published fiction. Iran Archive preserves a book record dated winter 1358; its date is kept in the original calendar rather than reduced to a single Gregorian year.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

3. Memoirs of a Soldier

   Story collection · Persian

   Early war fiction that attends to a young soldier’s ordinary responses. Discussing the book, Rabihavi recalls a soldier who laughs and plays without understanding war. His censorship interview identifies it as a story collection; his later Aasoo conversation also places The Corpse within the book.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

4. Palm Tree and Gunpowder

   Story collection · Persian

   A collection rooted in the working lives of southern Iran. In his 2024 Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi identifies The Porter as one of its stories and recalls poor Arab villagers cycling at night with goods to sell. The surviving printed colophon places the collection with Damoon in summer 1359.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

5. From This Place

   Story collection · Persian

   Short fiction about displacement and precarious relationships around temporary wartime shelters. In the Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi discusses The Wound and The Flowerpot alongside people and places he knew in Tehran. The Mina edition below is a catalogue record; the author’s accounts of earlier refusals belong to a separate publication history.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

6. Gisu

   Novel · Persian

   Baang’s introduction follows a newly released political prisoner searching for self and love amid politics and violence. The catalogue carries early Iranian and later Bonn editions, while the author’s account of permission remains a separate chronology. Gisso is the Bonn edition’s German parallel title; that book is in Persian.

   Latin transliteration of the Persian novel title.

7. Maryam’s Smile

   Novel · Persian

   Rabihavi describes a novel unfolding from morning to night in a Tehran shelter for people displaced by war. The French publisher presents four alternating monologues following Ozra, Issah and Mariam. The edition ledger keeps the revised Persian books beside the French translation, without treating the fictional family as the author’s biography.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

8. Boys of Love

   Novel · Persian

   The publisher introduces Jamil, a landowner’s heir, and Naji, who sells hay, meeting at a wedding. They leave their village looking for a place where their relationship can endure through revolution and war. Rabihavi dates the novel’s composition to 2007; its first electronic appearance, later Persian printing and translated editions have distinct records.

9. Daniel and His Father

   Novel · Persian

   A novel concerned with difficult father–son relationships. In his 2023 interview, Rabihavi resists a single reassuring pattern for those relationships and discusses characters whose conduct leaves questions open. Harvard and DNB identify a Persian 2022 Bonn edition; its German parallel title is part of that record.

   English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

10. The Tragedy of a Monarchy

    Play · Persian

    A play in two acts, with a Persian publication record from Goethe & Hafis. Discussing the work in 2023, Rabihavi describes his intention to examine both good and bad aspects of the previous monarchy and ask why it failed. That account is the playwright’s interpretation; the edition record supplies no production history.

    English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

11. Iranian Four Seasons

    Story collection · Persian

    A Persian short-story collection with a long route to publication. Rabihavi recalls that permission was refused and only a few stories appeared in periodicals. Harvard records a first-edition-labelled Nidā book in 1374, with an uncertain London imprint and the English cover title Iranian Four Seasons. A later Italian book shares the title; its contents relationship has not been established.

    English parallel cover title recorded by Harvard for the Persian collection.

12. A Ballad of Love

    Book · Persian

    Princeton records this book with Mina in Tehran in 1371 [1992]. In his Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi discusses a woman in love who is sent to a victim’s family after her cousin kills someone. He describes the treatment of a woman as payment; that author discussion supplies context without settling the book’s precise bibliographic subtype.

    English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

13. Wet Journey

    Novel · Persian

    The retained BaghDarBagh publisher archive identifies this Persian work as a novel and records a first edition in Stockholm in summer 2012. Its July publisher post provides the title, form and edition context. The English title here is a finding aid for that Persian record.

    English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

14. Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South

    Book · Persian

    The book is connected to reporting on children working at the brick kilns around Abadan. In his 2024 Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi recalls working with photographer Manouchehr Deghati in 1358 and writing the story at the same time. His testimony gives the work a context without making its fictional child an identified reporting subject.

    English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

15. When the Smoke of War Was Seen in the Sky

    Book · Persian

    A story of the opening war years. The inspected Yashar text introduces Naji as fourteen, although his slight build makes him look younger. He searches for his brother at the front and returns to a village damaged by bombing. In the later Aasoo conversation, Rabihavi recalls the book’s publication, reprints and early readership, while describing his intention to write what he had witnessed.

    English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.

Selected work records

• Boys of Love

  A novel about love between men amid Iran’s changing historical conditions. Published in English in 2024 by University of Wisconsin Press, with translation by Poupeh Missaghi.

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• Le quattro stagioni iraniane

  An Italian edition by Ghazi Rabihavi, published by Musicaos Editore in 2024. Edited and translated from English by Benedetta Pati.

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• Stoning

  A theatre work by Ghazi Rabihavi, presented at Golden Thread’s ReOrient 2001 festival and directed by Hal Gelb. The programme credits translation to Ana Bayat, Hal Gelb, and Lucy Williamson.

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• Les Garçons de l’amour

  The French edition of the novel published in English as Boys of Love. Serge Safran Éditeur published this translation from Persian by Christophe Balaÿ in 2020.

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• Le Sourire de Mariam

  A novel presented through four alternating monologues. Serge Safran’s account follows Ozra, Issah and their daughter Mariam through displacement, intimacy and the aftermath of war. Christophe Balaÿ translated the French edition from Persian.

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• Söhne der Liebe

  The German edition of the novel published in English as Boys of Love. Sujet Verlag’s 2022 edition credits a translation from Persian by Gorji Marzban and Thomas Geldner.

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• Voices

  A play by Ghazi Rabihavi in Golden Thread’s ReOrient 2000 line-up, directed by Hal Gelb. The company’s introduction describes an answering machine and a study of loneliness.

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• Look Europe!

  A theatre work by Ghazi Rabihavi. Golden Thread’s author biography records Harold Pinter producing the play at London’s Almeida Theatre in 1997, with subsequent stagings in Amsterdam and New York.

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