Dalia Sofer is the author of the novel The Septembers of Shiraz, a 2007 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and of the 2008 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. She lives in New York City, where she is at work on her second novel.

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  February 2011: Review of Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl