Azar Nafisi
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born
December 01, 1955
gender
female
place of birth
Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
genre
Nonfiction
member since
January 2009
about this author
Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (Persian: آذر نفیسی) (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States.
Nafisi's bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has gained a great deal of public attention and been translated into 32 languages.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.40 — 18,135 ratings — published 2003 32 editions |
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by ابوالقاسم فردوسی / Abolghasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis , Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.47 — 108 ratings — published 400 12 editions |
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Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.40 — 373 ratings — published 2008 7 editions |
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آن دنیای دیگر-تاملی در آثار ولادیمیر نباکف by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1994 |
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Inge Morath: Iran by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author), Monika Faber, John P. Jacob , Inge Morath avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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interviews
January 2009,
Azar Nafisi
"I think every book is a risk. If you want to get at the truth, you take a risk. But this book is the riskiest because it is so personal. " ...More
"I think every book is a risk. If you want to get at the truth, you take a risk. But this book is the riskiest because it is so personal. " ...More
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"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)
"Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth."
— Azar Nafisi
— Azar Nafisi
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"A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing."
— Azar Nafisi
— Azar Nafisi
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topics mentioning this author
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| Bayside Book Group: Book TV Interview with Azar Nafisi at Muriel's | 1 | 1 | Jun 04, 2009 11:04PM | |
| Chicks On Lit: Time for August's nominations | 21 | 91 | Jun 09, 2009 06:53AM |
