Dalia Sofer

Author

1972 –

72

Who is Dalia Sofer?

Dalia Sofer is an Iranian-born American writer.

Born in Tehran, Iran was raised in a Jewish family during revolutionary Iran, she eventually moved to New York City when she was 11. She attended the Lycée Français de New York, and went on to study French Literature at NYU with a minor in creative writing. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first novel, The Septembers of Shiraz, was published in 2007. Sofer is the recipient of the 2008 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Septembers of Shiraz.Dalia Sofer has won the Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction in 2007.

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Born
1972
Tehran
Ethnicity
  • Iranian American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • New York University
  • Lycée Français de New York
Lived in
  • Tehran

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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