Panelist/Discussants: Roya Hakakian, Conversation between Author, Filmmaker, and Journalist; Jaleh Pirnazar, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Roya Hakakian will speak about her memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran, entitled Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran. This book was a Barnes & Noble’s Pick of the Week, Ms. Magazine Must Read of the Summer, Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year, and Elle Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2004. It also won the Persian Heritage Foundation’s 2006 Latifeh Yarshater Book Award and is the 2005 winner of the Best Memoir by the Connecticut Center for the Book.
Born and raised in a Jewish family in Tehran, Roya came to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum. She lives in Connecticut.
Roya is the author of two collections of poetry in Persian, the first of which, For the Sake of Water, was nominated as poetry book of the year by Iran News in 1993. She was listed among the leading new voices in Persian poetry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies around the world, including La Regle Du Jeu , Strange Times My Dear: The Pen Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature , and the forthcoming W.W. Norton's Contemporary Voices of the Eastern World: An Anthology of Poems . She contributes to the Persian Literary Review, and served as the poetry editor of Par Magazine for six years.
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