Recent News
- Lila's forthcoming novel, Exit Paradise, will be published in 2026 »
- PEN America invited Lila to participate on its panel of judges for the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature »
- Lolita in the Afterlife (Vintage, 2021) features a long-form essay by Lila »
- Lila served on a panel of five judges, chaired by Baroness Lola Young, for the Man Booker Prize »
- Read Lila's interview with The Punch Magazine: "A novel summarises consciousness — Man Booker Prize juror Lila Azam Zanganeh" »
- Lila was featured in a TV presentation for GRANTA en español's gorgeous issue on WATER, in cooperation with the Fundación Aquae »
- The New Yorker: "Has the Great Library of Timbuktu Been Lost?", by Lila Azam Zanganeh »
- Read an interview with Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso in The Paris Review »
- Lila's piece, "A Map of Six Impossible Things," has been published in GRANTA's Spanish edition, along with contributions from Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, and Herta Müller »
- Lila is one of sixteen contributors to the gorgeous new book Where You Are from Visual Editions with her piece "A Map of Six Impossible Things" »
- The Enchanter: An Adventure in the Land of Nabokov is now available in Penguin paperback »
- "Lila Azam Zanganeh and the Contagion of Happiness": An Interview for the Fall 2012 Loggernaut Reading Series »
- Lila has written a fanciful foreword to Julian Green's Paris for Penguin Classics »
- Lila has just published an essay on Nabokov's late son in The New York Times Book Review »
- Lila's piece, "A Map of Six Impossible Things" (Where You Are, Visual Editions), was recently published in LETTRE International »
- Watch Lila in conversation with Salman Rushdie at the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival in New York City »
- The Brazilian edition of Lila's book, O Encantador: Nabokov e A Felicidade, reached #10 on the Brazilian National Bestseller List for nonfiction in July 2014 »
Reviews of The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
- L'année prochaine à Téhéran
- Elise Domenach
- Esprit
- December 3, 2009
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- La casa degli amuleti
- Maria Egizia Fiaschetti
- Il Corriere della Sera
- January 25, 2009
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- Una casa inaspettata
- Lucia Valerio
- Ville e giardini
- January 2009
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- L'orrore e la poesia abitano a Teheran
- Nicola Lecca
- L'unione Sarda
- July 23, 2007
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- Review in The Mainichi Daily News
- The Mainichi Daily News
- April 8, 2007
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- Review in Shukan Bunshun
- Discoveries: My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes.
- Los Angeles Times
- June 4, 2006
- Voices in the Darkness
- Andrew Nagorski
- Newsweek International
- April 24, 2006
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- An Account of Life in the Galaxy of Iran
- Stefano Cenci
- Il Manifesto
- April 18, 2006
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- Review on WatermarkBooks.com
- Mark David Bradshaw
- Watermark Books
- April 12, 2006
- Review on BooklistOnline.com
- Modern and Transgressive Iran
- Fabio di Chio
- Il Tempo
- March 21, 2006
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- Review in Publisher's Weekly
- Beneath the Veil, Iran's New Wave
- Tommy Cappellini
- Il Giornale
- March 9, 2006
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- O Châteaux
- Bernard Frank
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- January 22, 2004
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- Le mur de l'Atlantique
- Catherine Portevin
- Télérama
- February 20, 2002
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- L'impossible sagesse du 11 Septembre
- Francis Cornu
- Le Monde
- February 9, 2002
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