Shusha Guppy
Posted at 7:53AM Monday 31 Mar 2008
Shusha Guppy, who died on March 21 aged 72, was an Iranian-born writer, composer and singer, and a salonière of literary, cosmopolitan London.Trilingual in Persian, French and English, she wrote stylishly and succinctly in the last two and made a reputation as an interpreter of Persian love songs and French chanson. In exile from her native country, she became a passionate advocate of Sufi wisdom and the Persian classical literature on which she had been raised.
Obituary in The Telegraph
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