Porochista Khakpour





Porochista Khakpour

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born
in Iran
January 17, 1978

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Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and her first language is Farsi. She was raised in the Los Angeles area. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Chicago Reader, The Village Voice, Paper, Nylon, Gear, Flaunt, Bidoun, and nerve.com, among others.
Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic, 9/07) received much acclaim from The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. It was a Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best" selection and a NY Times “Editor's Choice.” It won the First Fiction prize in the 77th Annual California Book Awards.


Average rating: 3.61 · 224 ratings · 59 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Sons and Other Flammable Ob...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 5,223 ratings — published 1936 — 54 editions

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