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Azar Nafisi

1955 - Today

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Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948) is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008. Nafisi has held several academic leadership roles, including director of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Dialogue Project and Cultural Conversations, a Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service, Centennial Fellow, and a fellow at Oxford University. She is the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Azar Nafisi is the 1,921st most popular writer (up from 3,332nd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Iran (up from 308th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Azar Nafisi ranks 1,921 out of 7,302. Before her are John Barth, Zygmunt Krasiński, Petar Kočić, A. S. Byatt, Naftali Herz Imber, and Isaac Titsingh. After her are Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Christian Jacq, Arseny Tarkovsky, Gitta Sereny, John Banville, and Mikhail Zoshchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Azar Nafisi ranks 112. Before her are Jeff Daniels, Ángela Molina, Tanya Roberts, Siri Hustvedt, Claudio Gugerotti, and Horacio Pagani. After her are Ron Johnson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Maria Shriver, Thomas C. Südhof, Philippe Troussier, and Bruno Conti.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 211 out of 631. Before her are Mandane of Media (-584), Reza Abbasi (1565), Kiya Buzurg-Ummid (1062), Vardanes I (10), Azarmidokht (null), and Ibn Babawayh (918). After her are Mansour Bahrami (1956), Aga Khan I (1800), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Gotarzes I (-200), Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (838), and Gotarzes II of Parthia (10).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Azar Nafisi ranks 21. Before her are Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), and Baba Tahir (947). After her are Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Asadi Tusi (999), Daqiqi (1000), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), and Parvin E'tesami (1907).

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