About Lila Azam Zanganeh
Lila Azam Zanganeh is currently at work on a novel titled The Orlando Inventions.
Her first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, has just been published by Norton in the United States, Penguin in the United Kingdom, L'Olivier in France, Contact in Holland, and L'Ancora del Mediterraneo in Italy. In 2012, it will be published by Duomo Ediciones in Spain, Alfaguara Objetiva in Brazil, and Shang Shu in China.
Lila was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. In 2002, she began contributing literary articles, interviews, and essays to a host of American and European publications, among which The New York Times, The Paris Review, Le Monde, and La Repubblica.
Lila is fluent in six languages and serves on the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee and the Advisory Board of Words Without Borders. She was the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded each year by the Center for Fiction. She writes and lives in New York City.
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