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Fereshteh Molavi | Immigrated to Canada
in 1998, Fereshteh Molavi is an Iranian native writer who has
worked as a bibliographer and scholar, as well as a freelance
editor and translator. While living in Iran, she published articles
and books, among them, a novel, The House of Cloud and Wind (1991),
and a collection of short stories, The Sun Fairy (1991). Listen
to the Reed, a chapbook published by PEN Canada in 2005, is based
on her dialogue with Karen Connelly.
Fereshteh has been included
in many anthologies, among them, Afsaneh: Short Stories by Iranian
Women (London: Saqi, 2005) and Speaking in Tongues: PEN Canada
Writers in Exile (The Banff Centre Press, 2005). Her stories and
essays have been published in various Persian and English magazines.
She has had readings in Sweden, the United States and Canada.
Her latest collection of short stories in Persian, The Wandering
Nightingale, was released in Tehran in 2005.
Fereshteh has taught Persian
literature at University of Toronto. She is a member of PEN Canada
and has been at Massey College as Scholar at Risk since 2006.
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