The film also alludes to the disappearance during the 1990's of several Iranian writers, who were found strangled.

Tabriz was a house for numerous Iranian writers, poets, and illumination movements.

Within its long history it was a residence for many well known Iranian writers and poets.

That will be the only real memorial to the Iranian writers and thinkers whose names we do not know, but who once existed.

"The Government is very vulnerable now," said an Iranian writer who insisted on anonymity.

The 1960s saw her acting for multiple theater groups, collaborating with prominent Iranian writers and directors of the era.

In this period, the influence of the western literature on the Iranian writers and authors is obvious.

Three dissident Iranian writers have been reported missing in the last month, and now all three have turned up dead.

Iranian writers and publishers said none of the estimated 1,500 novels submitted to the censors in the last year had been approved.

Most other Iranian writers come from solidly middle-class backgrounds, with urban educations.