Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and English literature professor, born in Tehran, who has lived in the United States since 1997. She is best known for Reading Lolita in Tehran, a 2003 memoir in books that stayed on The New York Times best-seller list for 117 weeks and became a film in 2024. Her other books include The Republic of Imagination and Read Dangerously, published in 2022, which looks at literature's power in troubled times.