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Anita Amirrezvani

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Omfatter også følgende navne: Anita Amirrezvani, Анита Амирезвани

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Værker af Anita Amirrezvani

Blomsternes blod (2007) 1,935 eksemplarer
Equal of the Sun (2012) 252 eksemplarer
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers (2013) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
OS FIOS DA FORTUNA (2007) 2 eksemplarer

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Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors (2014) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Amirrezvani, Anita
Juridisk navn
Amirrezvani, Anita
Fødselsdato
1961-11-13
Køn
female
Nationalitet
Iran
Fødested
Teheran, Iran
Bopæl
Teheran, Iran
San Francisco, Californie, USA
Uddannelse
Vassar College
University of Californië, Berkeley
Erhverv
Schrijfster
editor
Kunstcriticus
Danscriticus
Organisationer
San Jose Mercury News
Contra Costa Times
California College of the Arts
Kort biografi

Born

November 13, 1961 in Tehran, Iran.

After my parents separated when I was two, I was raised by my mother in San Francisco. When I was thirteen, I began going to Iran on my own and spending time with my father’s side of the family. In San Francisco, my family was an intimate group that consisted of me, my mother and my aunt; in Tehran, a family dinner party was like a town hall meeting, huge and festive. I had eleven cousins and before long, two little brothers.
Isfahan

My father took me on a trip to Isfahan when I was fourteen, even though he was busy building his business and didn’t have much time for leisure. Because I loved art and architecture, he agreed to take me for two days. I remember being mesmerized by the great square of Isfahan and by the painted plasterwork on the staircase of our hotel, a former caravansary.

I decided to take a year off between high school and college and spend it in Iran. That year, 1979, turned out to be the fateful year of the Islamic Revolution. That summer, we heard gunfire and watched the sky turn black with smoke from fires. On my seventeenth birthday, the city was under an evening curfew. We went out for lunch and had cake at home. Less than ten days later, my father and stepmother decided the situation was unsafe. We packed up my brothers, who were one-and-a-half and three, and left for what we hoped would be a short time. It wasn’t.

The following fall, I started at Vassar College. I attended for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where I majored in English. I loved school.

I’ve been a writer and editor all my life. Before selling my novel, I worked for ten years as a dance critic and arts writer at two newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as an arts publicist. I felt very lucky to be able to write about dance, which unfortunately is getting less and less print coverage as newspapers downsize. I still write reviews now and then.

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En eksotisk og ualmindelig spændende historie fra Persien i 1620. Farverig hvor historierne væves ind i hinanden som de tæpper hovedpersonen, en ung pige på 16, konstruerer.
Om begær, lidenskaber, had og jalousi. Den unge pige tvinges til at indgå en sigheh, som er en 3 måneders ægteskabskontrakt. Det giver hende og moderen penge til at klare sig i 3 måneder. Men ingen ved om kontrakten bliver fornyet.
Det var trist at læse den sidste side færdig for det er en rigtig feriebog.

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