[4][5] 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.

[2][4] In Paris she encountered artists, writers and poets such as Louis Aragon, José Bergamín, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

She gave successful concerts in Britain, America and continental Europe, and appeared on television and radio programmes.

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 People of the Wind of which the idea, the production, and the text were mine.

Guppy promoted Persian culture and history, and was a political commentator on relations between the West and the Islamic world.

Her last book, The Secret of Laughter (2005), is a collection of Persian fairy tales from Iran's oral tradition.