Azar Nafisi is one of the best-known Iranian writers. He has lived in America in exile for many years.
His latest book published by Adelphi already has an explanatory title. 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' is also a film starring Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi and Mina Kavani. It is directed by Eran Riklis (The Lemon Garden), an Italian (Minerva) and Israeli production. The author is also an activist, her last call is alongside 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..