Lila Azam Zanganeh
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Lila Azam Zanganeh is a writer raised in Paris by exiled Iranian parents. She is the author of The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (Norton 2011).
Since 2002, she has been a contributor to Le Monde and has been published in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Nation, The Paris Review, and La Repubblica and has conducted interviews in "The Art of Fiction" series for The Paris Review.
In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company in the United States, Penguin Books
in England, L'Olivier in France, Contact in Holland, and L'Ancora del Mediterraneo in Italy. In 2012, it will be published by Duomo Ediciones in Spain. She is currently at work on a novel titled The Orlando Inventions.
She is the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded each year by the Center for Fiction. She writes and lives in New York City.
, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township
schools in Soweto
of South Africa
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Life
Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature, cinema and Romance languages at Harvard University.Since 2002, she has been a contributor to Le Monde and has been published in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Nation, The Paris Review, and La Repubblica and has conducted interviews in "The Art of Fiction" series for The Paris Review.
In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company in the United States, Penguin Books
Penguin Books
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in England, L'Olivier in France, Contact in Holland, and L'Ancora del Mediterraneo in Italy. In 2012, it will be published by Duomo Ediciones in Spain. She is currently at work on a novel titled The Orlando Inventions.
She is the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded each year by the Center for Fiction. She writes and lives in New York City.
Social initiatives
Zanganeh serves on the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee. She also serves on the advisory board of The Lunchbox FundThe Lunchbox Fund
The Lunchbox Fund, founded in 2005, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a daily meal for extremely poor and at-risk students in South African town ship high schools. The daily meal boosts the children’s nutrition and ability to learn...
, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township
Township
The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...
schools in Soweto
Soweto
Soweto is a lower-class-populated urban area of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships...
of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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Selected publications
- The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (2011) ISBN 978-0-393-07992-0
- My Sister, Guard Your Veil, My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices (2006) (edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh) ISBN 978-0807004630
External links
- Ecstasy on 3 x 5 Cards: Lila Azam Zanganeh’s Nabokov, interview on Radio Open Source with Christopher LydonChristopher LydonChristopher Lydon is an American media personality and author. He is best known for being the original host of The Connection, produced by WBUR and syndicated to other NPR stations.-Background:...