LIVE from the NYPL: Azar Nafisi | Paul Holdengräber

"If we need fiction today, it is not because we need to escape from reality; it is because we need to return to it with eyes that are refreshed." - Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination. 

The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination explores the importance of literature and imagination in a conversation with Paul Holdengräber.  

AZAR NAFISI is the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a portrayal of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and its effects on one university professor and her students. The book spent over 117 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was translated in 32 languages, and won numerous literary awards. Nafisi's most recent book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, was published in October 2014. She is also the author of the memoir Things I’ve Been Silent About, as well as an Italian children’s book Bibi e la voce verde, and the introduction to Iraj Pezeshkzad’s My Uncle Napoleon. Nafisi is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

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