Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is an Iranian-American writer. She won a 2015 Whiting Award, and the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[1]

Life

She graduated from Brown University; and University of California, San Diego. She teaches at University of Notre Dame.[2]

Her interviews appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books.[3] She married Leonardo Francalanci.[4]

Works

• Fra Keeler, (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012)
• Call Me Zebra, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) [5][6][7]

References

1. "Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi's Second Novel Wins Fiction Award". WAMU. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
2. "Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi // Department of English // University of Notre Dame". english.nd.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
3. "Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
4. "English professor reflects on the role of exile in her writing // The Observer". The Observer. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
5. Schillinger, Liesl (2018-03-29). "Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
6. Merry, Stephanie. "Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's 'Call Me Zebra' wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
7. McNamara, Nathan Scott. "The Straight Way Was Lost: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's "Call Me Zebra"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-10-14.