Porochista Khakpour
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| Born | Porochista Khakpour January 17, 1978 Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Novelist, Essayist |
| Genres | Literary fiction |
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www.porochistakhakpour.com |
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Porochista Khakpour (born 1978) is an Iranian American novelist.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Khakpour was raised in South Pasadena, California, later attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York for her BA. She received her MA from Johns Hopkins University (Writing Seminars). Khakpour was an arts and entertainment journalist early in her career. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Chicago Reader, The Village Voice, Paper, Nylon, Flaunt, URB, Bidoun and nerve.com.
Her first novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic) was published in September 2007 to great critical acclaim. The lyrical dark comedy, centered on the aftermath of 9/11 and Iranian fathers and sons in Los Angeles and New York, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and was included on the Chicago Tribune's 2007 Fall's Best list. It won the 77th annual California Book Award prize in First Fiction. She has been longlisted for the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for young writers, and shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. Her writing has been compared to that of Zadie Smith and Philip Roth.
[edit] External links
- Khakpour's website
- Sunday New York Times Book Review of Sons and Other Flammable Objects
- The New Yorker review
- Los Angeles Times feature
- Interview by Tao Lin
- San Francisco Chronicle review
- Iranian.com interview
- Khakpour on Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson/ NPR interview
- Khakpour on The Leonard Lopate Show
- NY Times Op-Ed Essay-"Summerscapes" series
- NY Times Op-Ed Essay: "Islamic Revolution Barbie"
- NY Times Op-Ed Essay: "Finally, 'Thirtysomething?'"
- NY Times Op-Ed Essay: "My Nine Years as a Middle-Eastern American"
- NY Times Op-Ed Essay: "Ringing in the Year 1390"
- NY Times Arts & Leisure Essay: "Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab"
- L.A. Times essay on Iranians in pop culture
- Daily Beast personal essay
- Salon "The King of Iranian-American Flash and Trash"
- Porochista Khakpour reads from Sons and Other Flammable Objects on Apostrophe Cast
- The Rumpus essay on Sadegh Hedayat's Blind Owl
- Poets and Writers magazine cover, with Danzy Senna
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