Laleh Khadivi, an Iranian-American author, filmmaker and Emory's Creative Writing Fellow, won a $50,000 award in recognition of her first novel, The Age of Orphans.
Khadivi received the Whiting Writers' Award at a ceremony in New York City Wednesday, one of 10 honorees (read the report).
Laleh Khadivi, the 2007-2009 Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction, holds a BA from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from Mills College. Primarily a fiction writer, her work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine's special issue on "Emerging Writers" and The Concord Review. Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, will be published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2009.
She has also directed and produced extensively in documentary film, covering topics as far-ranging as the American criminal justice system, women in prison, and life and culture in Brazil.
Khadivi received the Whiting Writers' Award at a ceremony in New York City Wednesday, one of 10 honorees (read the report).
Laleh Khadivi, the 2007-2009 Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction, holds a BA from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from Mills College. Primarily a fiction writer, her work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine's special issue on "Emerging Writers" and The Concord Review. Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, will be published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2009.
She has also directed and produced extensively in documentary film, covering topics as far-ranging as the American criminal justice system, women in prison, and life and culture in Brazil.
New and upcoming books
Novels
The Age of Orphans (2009)
The Walking (2013)
A Good Country (2017)
Female Life on Planet Earth (2026)
The Walking (2013)
A Good Country (2017)
Female Life on Planet Earth (2026)
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