Freidoune Sahebjam

Freidoune Sahebjam (Persian: فریدون صاحب جمع‎) (1933–2008) was a French-Iranian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist who resided in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.^[1]

He gained international recognition for his novel La Femme Lapidée, in 1990, about Soraya Manutchehri, which was translated four years later as The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story. The book became the basis for screenplay of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., in which the American actor James Caviezel portrays Sahebjam.^[2]

Sahebjam was a journalist for the French TV channel LCI and for French newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Telegramme.^[1]

Before his death, he had recently written a biography on his mother, an aristocrat of Qajar heritage, entitled . He died on Wednesday 26 March 2008, at the age of 75. The cause of death was not reported.^[1]

Bibliography[]

• The Stoning of Soraya M., Arcade Publishing, 1994
• , a biography of his mother, an aristocrat of Qajar heritage
• Morte parmi les vivants : Une tragédie afghane
• La Femme Lapidée [The Stoning of Soraya M.]
• Je n'ai plus de larmes pour pleurer (with Reza Behrouzi)
• Le Vieux de la montagne
• Reviens Mahomet, ils sont devenus fous : Chroniques de la barbarie islamique ordinaire
• Le Dernier Eunuque
• Mohamad reza pahlavi, shah d'iran
• Un procès sans appel

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.sahebjam.fr/ (in Memorial Freidoune SAHEBJAM )

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