← Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent Aboutby Azar NafisiMemoir exploring Iran's 1953 coup and family trauma across generationsFind on Amazon↗About the authorAzar NafisiIranian-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.More by Azar NafisiReading Lolita in TehranIranian women study forbidden Western literature secretly in postrevolution Tehran→The Republic of ImaginationEssay collection celebrating literature's power to resist oppression→That Other World→