لاله خدیوی Laleh Khadivi,novelist and film maker
b.1356/1977Esfahan,Iran,into a Kurdish family
Oeuvres:
The Age of Orphans , 2009
The Walking , 2013
...Part 3 of trilogy on life of Kurdish people,to be published
Film: 900 women,2001
Laleh Khadivi immigrated from Iran to Belgium,Puerto Rico,Canada and finally to U.S.
As a writer who belongs more to Edward Said’s exilic consciousness than to any one particular country, I would like to think that literature is appealing because it rises above nationality and nationalism and draws people to places where they can suspend judgment, assumption, and belief. Each day, as I sit to write, I try my best to quiet whatever voices are generally expected of me—expat or refugee or immigrant—and aim to listen instead to the deeper noise that binds me all the way back to Scheherazade, who made a universe of stories that not only humanized her in the eyes of the raging sultan, but also saved her life.
from Interview with World Literature Today
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