Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupationwriter
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Website
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (born 1983 in Los Angeles) is an Iranian-American writer. She won the 2015 Whiting Award for Fiction and the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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Early life and education

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was born in 1983, [1] in Los Angeles, [2] to an Iranian mother and British father. [3] She spent much of her childhood in Iran and Spain but also lived in the United States, Scotland, and the United Arab Emirates. [2] She studied Latin American studies and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego, then completed her Master of Fine Arts in fiction at Brown University. [4] She speaks four languages. [2]

Career

In 2012, Van der Vliet Oloomi published her first novel, Fra Keeler.

In 2015, she was honored as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 [5] and won the Whiting Award for Fiction. [6]

Her second book, the unconventional bildungsroman Call Me Zebra, [7] won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [5] According to the judges, the novel "is a library within a library, a Borges-esque labyrinth of references from all cultures and all walks of life". [6] Call Me Zebra also received the John Gardner Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. [5]

Her work has appeared in The Paris Review , Granta , Guernica , Bomb , Los Angeles Review of Books [5] and The New York Times , among others. [4] It has been translated into Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and Romanian. [8]

In addition to writing, Van der Vliet Oloomi is an associate professor of English at University of Notre Dame. [2] [3] She also founded "Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, a lecture series sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame that brings together Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian and North African writers and artists." [5]

Awards and honors

Van der Vliet Oloomi has received fellowships through the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, and Art Omi. [5] [8]

In 2015, the National Book Foundation selected Van der Vliet Oloomi for their annual "5 Under 35" honor. [5] [9]

Over twenty publications named Call Me Zebra one of the best books of 2019. [5]

Her short story "It Is What It Is" was included in The Best American Short Stories 2023 .

Awards for Van der Vliet Oloomi's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
2019Call Me Zebra PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner [5] [6] [10]
PEN/Open Book Award Longlist [5]
2015 Whiting Award for FictionWinner [11]

Publications

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