Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (born 1968)[1] is an American playwright and author living in New York City. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.

Background

Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Iranian Muslim father and a Jewish mother. He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] He is the nephew of the novelist Mark Harris.

Work

When skateboards will be free and brief encounters with the enemy also the writer of many articles, some published in the New York Times

Plays

Sayrafiezadeh's plays include New York is Bleeding, Autobiography of a Terrorist, The World Might Be Uninhabited, All Fall Away, and Long Dream in Summer. They have been produced or read at South Coast Repertory, New York Theatre Workshop, The Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Lark Theatre, and at The Sundance Institute.

Writings

Sayrafiezadeh's observations of life in New York and personal essays have been contributed to the online literary site Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.[4]

His fiction includes "When Skateboards Will Be Free," first published in the literary journal Granta 91: Wish You Were Here[5] and "Most Livable City," published in The Paris Review.[6] "Appetite", and "Paranoia", were published in The New Yorker.[7][8]

Memoir

Sayrafiezadeh wrote the memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood (2009) about his childhood in the Socialist Workers Party USA.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. "My Mother and the Stranger". Open City. Retrieved June 13, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Said Sayrafiezadeh web site, retrieved December 9, 2006.
  3. ↑ http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/mothuphill082411.aspx
  4. ↑ Mr. Bellers Neighborhood literary web site, Said Sayrafiezadeh web search page, retrieved December 9, 2006.
  5. ↑ Granta 91: Wish You Were Here web site, Table of Contents, retrieved December 9, 2006.
  6. ↑ Sayrafiezadeh, S, Most Livable City (on-line abstract), The Paris Review, Spring 2006, Issue No. 176, retrieved December 9, 2006
  7. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/03/01/100301fi_fiction_sayrafiezadeh
  8. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/02/28/110228fi_fiction_sayrafiezadeh
  9. ↑ "When Skateboards Will Be Free". Random House. Retrieved June 13, 2010. 

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