Lila azam zanganeh biography of christopher

Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature and cinema at Harvard University.

Lila has contributed criticism, interviews, and essays to a host of publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, La Repubblica, and The Paris Review. In 2021, she published a long-form essay in Lolita in the Afterlife (Vintage).

Her forthcoming novel, Exit Paradise, will be published in 2025.

Lila's first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness, was the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize, delivered by the Center for Fiction, and was published worldwide in thirteen languages by:

• Norton, United States
• Penguin, United Kingdom
• L'Olivier, France
• Contact, Netherlands
• L'Ancora del Mediterraneo, Italy
• Duomo Ediciones, Spain
• Azbooka, Ru