Dalia Sofer

Dalia Sofer
Born	1972 Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Iranian-American
Notable works	The Septembers of Shiraz
Website
On Harper Collins

Dalia Sofer (Template:Lang-fa, born 1972) is an Iranian-born American writer.

Born in Tehran, Iran was raised in a Jewish family during revolutionary Iran, she eventually moved to New York City when she was 11. She attended the Lycée Français de New York, and went on to study 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. 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.

Books

• The Septembers of Shiraz (2007)
• Man of My Time (2020)

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• New York Times Questions for Dalia Sofer