Guppy, Shusha

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Guppy, Shusha
Other forms of name
Assar, Shansi
Date of birth
1935-12-24
Date of death
2008-03-21
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 66535794
Wikidata: Q3294818
Library of congress: n 87861731
Sources of Information
  • Independent online ed., Mar. 24, 2008(Shusha Guppy; b. Shansi Assar, Dec. 24, 1935, Tehran; m. Nicholas Guppy, 1961; d. Mar. 21, 2008, London; singer and writer acclaimed for a memoir of her Persian childhood)
  • Her The blindfold horse, 1989, c1988:CIP t.p. (Shusha Guppy)

Wikipedia description:

Shushā Guppy (Persian: شوشا گوپی; née Shamsi Assār (Persian: شمسی عصار; 24 December 1935 – 21 March 2008) was a writer, editor and a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s, until her death in 2008.

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