Lila Azam Zanganeh
Lila Azam Zanganeh is a writer raised in Paris, France, by exiled Iranian parents. She lives and works in New York City.[1] She is the author of The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (Norton 2011).[2]
Life and work
Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. In 2002, she began contributing literary articles, interviews, and essays to a host of American and European publications, among which The New York Times, The Paris Review, Le Monde, and la Repubblica.[3][4]
Her first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, was published in 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company in the United States and has since been published by Penguin Books in the United Kingdom, L'Olivier in France, Contact in Holland, L'Ancora del Mediterraneo in Italy, Duomo Ediciones in Spain, Azbooka in Russia, and most recently by Alfaguara Objetiva in Brazil. In March of 2014, it will be published by Shang Shu in China.
She is fluent in seven languages (English, French, Persian, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese) and 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, and is at work on a new novel titled The Orlando Inventions. [5][6]
Social initiatives
Azam Zanganeh serves on the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee and the Advisory Board of Words Without Borders. Up until the end of 2011, she also served on the advisory board of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa.
Selected publications
- O Encantador - Nabokov e A Felicidade (2013) ISBN 978-85-7962-219-9
- Волшебник: Набоков и счастье (2013) ISBN 978-5-389-04825-6
- The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (2011) ISBN 978-0-393-07992-0
- L'enchanteur : Nabokov et le bonheur (2011) ISBN 978-2-87929-708-8
- Un incantevole sogno di felicità : Nabokov, le farfalle e la gioia di vivere (2011) ISBN 978-88-8325-296-9
- De tovenaar : Nabokov en geluk (2011) ISBN 978-90-254-3581-3
- My Sister, Guard Your Veil, My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices (2006) (edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh) ISBN 978-0-8070-0463-0
References
- ↑ Heyman, Stephen. "Reading 'Lolita.' Forgetting Tehran". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ↑ W.W. Norton, Authors, Lila Azam Zanganeh, http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Enchanter/
- ↑ Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197
- ↑ Jorge Semprún, The Art of Fiction No. 192
- ↑ Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197
- ↑ Jorge Semprún, The Art of Fiction No. 192
External links
- Ecstasy on 3 x 5 Cards: Lila Azam Zanganeh’s Nabokov, interview on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
- Lila Azam Zanganeh on the portal RAI Letteratura