Fariba Hachtroudi

Fariba Hachtroudi (Hashtroodi) (Persian: فریبا هشترودی; born 1951 in Teheran) is a French-Iranian journalist and writer.

[1] Early in her journalistic career, Hachtroudi covered the Iran–Iraq War.

[3] Following the Iranian Revolution, Hachtroudi began writing polemics against Khomeini and the religious authorities in Iran.

Between 1981 and 1983, she lived in Sri Lanka, teaching at Colombo University.

[1] Hachtroudi's first novel, Iran, les rives du sang, was awarded the French Republic's Human Rights Prize in 2001.