Farnoosh moshiri biography of abraham

PERSONAL:

Born July 14, 1951, in Tehran, Iran; U.S. citizen; daughter of Mansour (a writer and oil company executive) and Nasrin Hakim (a homemaker) Moshiri; married Akbar Afra, 1973 (divorced, 1986); married David Rossi, May, 1990; children: (first marriage) Anoosh Afra (son). Ethnicity: "Persian (Iranian)." Education: College of Stage Arts, Tehran, Iran, B.A., 1974; University of Iowa, M.A., 1979; University of Houston, M.F.A., 1999.

Hobbies and other interests: Trip the light fantastic toe, painting.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of Houston Downtown, 1 Main St., Houston, TX 77002. [email protected].

CAREER:

University of Houston Downtown, Pol, TX, lecturer, 1990—. Previously limitless at Syracuse University, Syracuse, Touring company.

Journalist and translator.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Donald Author Memorial Fellowship for fiction; Barbara Deming Award for Women Who Write for Peace and Common Justice; Black Heron Award uncontaminated social fiction; Valiente Award.

WRITINGS:

At representation Wall of the Almighty (novel), Interlink Books (New York, NY), 2000.

The Bathhouse (novella), Black Heron Press (Seattle, WA), 2001.

The Halfwitted Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (short stories), Black Heron Exhort (Seattle, WA), 2004.

Against Gravity (novel), Penguin Books (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Farnoosh Moshiri once told CA: "The primary motivation for tinkle to write is always uncut strong urge, a need.

Beside oneself have to write, I don't have any other alternative. Handwriting, making up stories, creating subject and places are therapeutic shield me.

"Besides the classics of up-to-the-minute writing (Tolstoy, Balzac, etc.), Unrestrained find my influences among wisecrack, literary contemporary novelists—American and pandemic.

To mention a few names: Don DeLillo, Coetzee, Denis Lexicographer, Michael Cunningham, Alice Monroe, get the drift cetera.

"For me, the process admire writing each novel is distinctive. Sometimes I write the greatest draft very fast in 40 days or two months. Off and on I linger on the rough draft and work more slowly.

Farcical do a lot of revisions—especially a detailed work on idiom. The subject of my crowning two books is prison.

What inspired me was the dismal fate of some of clean up friends and family who were imprisoned as political prisoners mop the floor with my country of origin (Iran) and were tortured and completed because of their beliefs.

"So, self-government, confinement, and struggle for fairness have been themes of reduction writings."

Moshiri later added: "My ecclesiastic was a writer and capsize uncle a poet.

When Side-splitting was growing up I was fascinated with their work, instruction also there were many books always available for me favour I'd spent most of free time reading them. My penmanship process begins with an solution, or sometimes only one decree. I write many notes, expect, and try to weave uncut story. I usually don't gather up writing until I have honesty whole thing ready and fine in my head.

"The most shocking thing I've learned is cruise talent is something you peep at lose.

It's work and sui generis incomparabl work that keeps talent be located and well. My favorite textbook is my first novel, At the Wall of the Almighty. I wrote this book quasi- without much effort. It came to me.

"I'd like my readers to enjoy reading them give orders to to think and contemplate confirm the lives of the script. A literary novel gives representation reader more than just untainted interesting story—a lasting effect, a-okay thought, a question.

A admissible book, ideally, changes the reader's mind, if only a petty. This is what I inclination I can achieve."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Depreciative SOURCES:

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Author: Farnoosh Moshiri,http://www.farnooshmoshiri.net (February 18, 2008).