Dalia Sofer
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Early life and education
Born in Tehran, Iran, she was raised in a Jewish family during revolutionary Iran. At age 11 she moved to New York City. Later she studied French literature at NYU with a minor in creative writing. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first novel, The Septembers of Shiraz, was published in 2007. A film adaption, starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek in the lead roles, was released in 2015.
Awards and recognition
Sofer is the recipient of the 2008 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Septembers of Shiraz. She has also won a 2007 Whiting Award for fiction, and has been a resident at Yaddo.[1]
Books
- The Septembers of Shiraz (2007)
- Man of My Time (2020)
References
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American people of Iranian-Jewish descent
- Jewish American novelists
- Writers from Tehran
- New York University alumni
- Iranian Jews
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American Jews
- Jewish women writers
- Iranian emigrants to the United States