Award-winning author Dalia Sofer discusses her book "Man of My Time” on Nov. 12 at CCNY.
Award-winning author Dalia Sofer discusses her novel “Man of My Time,” a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book of 2020, in the second edition of The City College of New York's “Writers on Iran” reading series on Friday, Nov. 12. The Zoom event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Click here to register.
The reading series is presented by City College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, where Sofer, who was born in Tehran and moved to New York as a child, teaches. Amir A. Ahmadi, also a critically acclaimed Iranian author and visiting professor in the MFA program, was the series’ first speaker in October.
Set in Iran and New York City, Sofer’s “Man of My Time” is the story of an Iranian man reckoning with his capacity for love and evil. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as “… a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply imagined, and deeply human, soul.”
Sofer is also the author of “The Septembers of Shiraz,” which was selected a New York Times Notable Book of the Year as well, among other accolades. It won the Sami Rohr Choice Award, was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award, and was longlisted for several prizes.
Sofer’s other honors include the Whiting Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Sirenland Fellowship, the Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship, and multiple residencies at Yaddo, the renowned retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Sofer has, in addition, contributed essays and reviews to various publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Review of Books, and The Believer.
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CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing was recently profiled by Insider Higher Education. Click here to read the article.
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