1955 - Today
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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Among writers, Azar Nafisi ranks 5,166 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1926 - 2020
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 5,160
1868 - 1929
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 5,161
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 5,162
1915 - 1991
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 5,163
1961 - Present
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 5,164
1935 - 2022
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 5,165
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 5,166
1515 - 1568
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 5,167
1930 - 1996
HPI: 44.39
Rank: 5,168
1822 - 1862
HPI: 44.39
Rank: 5,169
1844 - 1929
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 5,170
1917 - 1987
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 5,171
1921 - 2017
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 5,172
Among people born in 1955, Azar Nafisi ranks 320. Before 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.
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 314
1955 - 2018
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 315
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 316
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 317
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 318
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 319
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 320
1955 - 2000
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 321
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.39
Rank: 322
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 323
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 324
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 325
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 326
Among people born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 351 out of 528. Before 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).
1983 - Present
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 345
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 346
1918 - 1990
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 347
1949 - 2011
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 348
1951 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 349
1969 - Present
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 350
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 351
1459 - 1510
HPI: 44.36
Rank: 352
1958 - Present
HPI: 43.96
Rank: 353
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.96
Rank: 354
1957 - Present
HPI: 43.59
Rank: 355
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.51
Rank: 356
1946 - Present
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 357
Among writers born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 51. Before 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).
1874 - 1926
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 45
1938 - Present
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 46
1892 - 1997
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 47
1904 - 1997
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 48
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 49
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 50
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 51
1946 - Present
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 52
1934 - 2020
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 53
1976 - Present
HPI: 38.70
Rank: 54
1966 - Present
HPI: 34.61
Rank: 55
1964 - 2014
HPI: 28.27
Rank: 56