04/10/2018
UC Davis Middle east/South asia studies program presents:
The Bita Daryabari Endowed Lecture Series
A READING AND CONVERSATION WITH JASMIN DARZNIK
When: TUESDAY, APRIL 17 - 7:00 PM
Where: CONFERENCE CENTER, BALLROOM A, UC DAVIS
Jasmin Darznik’s novel Song of a Captive Bird is a fictional account of Iran’s trailblazing woman poet, Forugh Farrokhzad, and was published by Random House on February 13, 2018. Jasmin is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She was born in Tehran, Iran and came to America when she was five years old. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. Now a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. You can
visit her at www.jasmin-darznik.com
COSPONSOREDBY THE COMPARATIVE LITERATUREDEPARTMENT & ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT [email protected] OR CALL 530-752-4926.
Homepage for New York Times bestselling author Jasmin Darznik, author of "The Good Daughter" and the forthcoming novel, "Song of a Captive Bird."
