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WRITER

Azar Nafisi

1955 - Today

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Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948) is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.Nafisi has held several academic leadership roles, including director of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Dialogue Project and Cultural Conversations, a Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service, Centennial Fellow, and a fellow at Oxford University.She is the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 117 weeks, and has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense.In addition to Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi has authored, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Azar Nafisi has received more than 247,634 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Azar Nafisi is the 5,166th most popular writer (down from 4,763rd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Iran (down from 321st in 2019) and the 51st most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 250k

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  • 44.40

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Azar Nafisi ranks 5,166 out of 5,755Before her are Günter de Bruyn, Otokar Březina, Bruno Heller, Ismat Chughtai, Ann Coulter, and Bahaa Taher. After her are Roger Ascham, Alifa Rifaat, Lev Mei, Marie Hankel, Carlo Cassola, and Richard Wilbur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Azar Nafisi ranks 320Before her are Roma Maffia, Big Van Vader, Katsuyuki Kawachi, Bruno Barreto, Fang Fang, and Zlatko Lagumdžija. After her are Enric Miralles, Khoren Oganesian, Dana Carvey, Val McDermid, Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, and William H. McRaven.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 351 out of 528Before her are Golshifteh Farahani (1983), Rita (1962), Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), Nasser Hejazi (1949), Dariush (1951), and Bahman Ghobadi (1969). After her are Yusuf Adil Shah (1459), Andy (1958), Shahram Nazeri (1950), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), and Shahrnush Parsipur (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 51Before her are Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Bozorg Alavi (1904), Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939). After her are Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), Ahmad NikTalab (1934), Masih Alinejad (1976), Roya Hakakian (1966), and Man Haron Monis (1964).