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.jpg) Khadivi in 2013 | |
| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Occupation | Filmmaker Novelist |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | Reed College Mills College |
Laleh Khadivi (born 1977) is an Iranian Americannovelist, and filmmaker.
Khadivi was born to aKurdish[1] family inEsfahan, Iran, in 1977. Shortly after theIranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in theSan Francisco Bay Area. She received a B.A. in 1998 fromReed College and an MFA in 2006 fromMills College.[2] In 2002 she began to research the Kurds, particularly their fate in the southwestern region of Iran under the first Shah. Her first novel,The Age of Orphans, is the story of a Kurdish boy whose father is killed in a battle with the Iranian army in 1921. The boy is captured, becomes a soldier and eventually is turned into an oppressor of his own people.[1]
Khadivi has worked extensively as a documentary filmmaker.[3]She taught atEmory University as the 2007–2009 Fiction Fellow.[4] She also taught creative writing atSanta Clara University during the 2010–2011 school year. She resides inSan Francisco, California, where she is a professor in the Writing department atUniversity of San Francisco. Her debut novel,The Age of Orphans, has been translated intoDutch,Hebrew, and Italian.[1][5]
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