Lila Azam Zanganeh
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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. She is the author of ''The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness'' (Penguin Books, 2011). She was a member of the jury for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction. She has just published a long-form essay in ''Lolita in the Afterlife'' (Vintage Books, 2021). Her new novel, ''Of Lovers and Other Madmen'', is forthcoming in 2022. Life and work Azam Zanganeh was born to Iranian exile parents, and the family escaped to Paris when Zanganeh was two years old, following the revolution of 1979. After studying literature and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to become a teaching fellow in 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 Mo ...
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