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Laleh Khadivi
Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker (born 1977)
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| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) Isfahan, Iran |
| Occupation | Filmmaker Novelist |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | Reed College Mills College |
Laleh Khadivi (born 1977) is an Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker.
Life
Khadivi was born to a Kurdish[1] family in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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She received a B.A. in 1998 from Reed College and an MFA in 2006 from Mills College.[2] In 2002 she began to research the Kurds, particularly their fate in the southwestern region of Iran under the first Shah.
Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, is the story of a Kurdish boy whose father is killed in a battle with the Iranian army in 1921. The boy is captured, becomes