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Porochista Khakpour

Novelist

Born in: Iran
Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour’s 2007 debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which portrays a family that flees Iran during the Iran Revolution to start a new life in Southern California, was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and won the California Book Award. Her personal essays appear regularly in The New York Times, and she currently teaches at Columbia University, Fordham University, and Wesleyan University. Khakpour’s second novel, The Last Illusion, was released in 2014. Updated 2014

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