Azar Nafisi
Iranian-American author and academic whose memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran became a global bestseller. Her work explores the relationship between literature and political freedom in Iran. She is one of the most celebrated Iranian writers in English.
Works
- Reading Lolita in TehranIranian women study forbidden Western literature secretly in postrevolution Tehran
- The Republic of ImaginationEssay collection celebrating literature's power to resist oppression
- Things I've Been Silent AboutMemoir exploring Iran's 1953 coup and family trauma across generations
- That Other World