Azar Nafis is one of the best-known Iranian writers. Her masterpiece 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' was published 21 years ago now.
The 76-year-old author has lived in America in exile for many years. She is also an activist, her last call is with the American Pen Society to release Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Prize-winning writer-activist who is in prison in Iran. "I feel close to the words of David Grossman and I act in these dangerous times to make them my own: 'don't become like your enemy', I try every day to remain myself and be in connection with the world that wants to be away from war", he concludes. 'Reading dangerously' is also a film starring Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi and Mina Kavani and directed by Eran Riklis (The Lemon Garden), an Italian (Minerva) and Israeli production.