Maryam Diener-Sachs

Maryam Diener-Sachs (née Banihashem; formerly Sachs; born 25 September 1961) is an Iranian-born Swiss author, publisher and emeritus trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts.^[1]

Maryam Diener-Sachs
Born	Maryam Banihashem (1961-09-25)September 25, 1961 Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Iranian
Citizenship	Switzerland
Alma mater	Paris Sorbonne, Columbia University
Spouse	Rolf Sachs ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 2014)​ Roger Diener ​ (m. 2015)​

Her debut novel Sans te dire adieu (Without saying goodbye), initially published in French, has been translated into both German and English. Further novels include The Passenger (London 2013) and Beyond Black There Is No Colour, The Story of Forough Farrokhzad (London 2020).

In 2012, Maryam Diener founded, together with writer and publisher Wilfried Dickhoff, Éditions Moon Rainbow, a Berlin-based publishing house focusing on limited edition books presenting encounters between poetry and visual arts, e.g. Francesco Clemente & Bei Dao, Rosemarie Trockel & Henri Michaux, Marcel Broodthaers, Jean Fautrier & Francis Ponge and Etel Adnan & Eugénie Paultre.

Personal life

In 1985, Maryam Banihashem married Rolf Sachs (born 1955), whom she separated and divorced in 2015. They had three children together:

• Philipp Sachs (born 1986)^[2]
• Frederik Sachs (born 1988)^[3]
• Roya Sachs (born 1991)^[4][5]

In 2014, she married Roger Diener, a Swiss architect and principal of Diener & Diener, an architecture firm in Basel, Switzerland.

Bibliography

Anthologies

• Der Kuss (The Kiss), (1991)^[6][7]
• Der Mond (The Moon), (1998)^[8]

Photography

• The Wild Emperor (2005, with Rolf Sachs)
• Paradise Lost: Persia From Above

Stand-alone novels

• Sans te dire adieu (Without saying goodbye)
• The Passenger (London 2013)
• Beyond Black There Is No Colour, The Story of Forough Farrokhzad (London 2020)^[9]