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Azar Nafisi Biography

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran.

Azar nafisi author biography format pdf Professor and writer Azar Nafisi was born in in Tehran, Iran. Her father Ahmed Nafisi was the mayor of Tehran and her mother Nezhat Nafisi was one of the first women to serve on Iranian parliament. The Nafisi family had a passion for literature and exposed young Nafisi to stories of Persian classics during family walks and before bedtime. At.

She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil and left Iran for America in

She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic and has appeared on countless radio and television programs.

She is most famous for her memoirs, particularly Reading Lolita in Tehran.

She is also the author of Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Novels, Things I've Been Silent About (), The Republic of Imagination () and a children's book, BiBi and the Green Voice. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Azar nafisi author biography format Azar Nafisi is best known for her book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for weeks, and has won several literary awards, including the Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense.

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