Azar Nafisi | |
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Born | Persian: آذر نفیسی 1 December 1948 Tehran, Pahlavi Iran |
Occupation | Writer, professor |
Language | English |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Oklahoma |
Notable works | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
Notable awards | 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award (Booksense), Persian Golden Lioness Award |
Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948)[Notes 1][1] is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[2]
Nafisi has held several academic leadership roles, including director of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Dialogue Project and Cultural Conversations, a Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service, Centennial Fellow, and a fellow at Oxford University.[3]
She is the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 117 weeks, and has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense.[4][5]
In addition to Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi has authored, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter,[6] The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books[7] and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile.[8] Her newest book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times was published March 8, 2022.[9]
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