Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
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| Born | Azareen Oloomi 19 July 1983 Westlake, California |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, San Diego (2005, B.A.), Brown University (2009, M.F.A.) |
| Period | 20112–present |
| Genre | Psychological fiction, absurdist fiction, magical realism |
| Notable works | Fra Keeler, Call Me Zebra |
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| Children | 0 |
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Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi (born June 19, 1983) is an award-winning international author living in the United States.[1].
She is the author of Call Me Zebra, published in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2018 and by Alma Books in the U.K in May 2018 and the critically acclaimed novel, Fra Keeler, published by Dorothy, a publishing project in 2012 and by Giulio Perrone Editore in Italy. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes in Barcelona[2], and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. Her work has been compared to that of Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Hitchcock, Italo Svevo, Clarice Lispector, Maggie Nelson, Rachel Kushner and Roberto Bolaño.
In 2015, Van der Vliet Oloomi won a Whiting Writers’ Award[3] and was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree[4].
Career[edit]
Van der Vliet Oloomi attended the University of California San Diego, where she studied Creative Writing and Latin American Studies before obtaining her M.F.A in Literary Arts from Brown University. She has taught literature and creative writing at Brown University[5] and Rhode Island School of Design. She now teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame[6].
Van der Vliet Oloomi’s work has appeared in the New York Times[7], The Paris Review[8],GRANTA[9], Guernica[10], BOMB[11], and the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal[12], among other places. She is also, along with her husband, Leonardo Francalanci, the author of The Catalan Literary Landscape 2012 (Words without Borders), a series of articles exploring notions of journey and the intersections between literature and landscape[13]
Personal life[edit]
Van der Vliet Oloomi was born in Los Angeles, California and has since lived in Iran, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore. She speaks Spanish, Italian, Farsi, Catalan and English is her native language. She currently splits her time between South Bend, Indiana and Florence, Italy with her husband, Leonardo Francalanci.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/vandervliet/
- ↑ https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/vandervliet/
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/whiting_award_winners_announced?cmnt_all=1%7Ctitle=Whiting Award Winners Announced|date=6 March 2015|publisher
- ↑ https://www.bustle.com/articles/113986-the-national-book-foundations-5-under-35-honoress-have-achieved-an-awful-lot-in-a-very%7Ctitle=These Incredible Writers Are All Under 35|first=Emma|last=Oulton|publisher
- ↑ https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/events/azareen-van-der-vliet-oloomi
- ↑ https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/vandervliet/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/books/review/call-me-zebra-azareen-van-der-vliet-oloomi.html
- ↑ https://www.theparisreview.org/whiting-oloomi
- ↑ https://granta.com/five-things-right-now-oloomi/
- ↑ https://www.guernicamag.com/the-vase/
- ↑ http://bombmagazine.org/article/10062/zero-an-excerpt%7Ctitle=Zero (an excerpt) by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org}}
- ↑ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-straight-way-was-lost-azareen-van-der-vliet-oloomis-call-me-zebra/
- ↑ https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/azareenleonardo
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