Tahereh Mafi

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Tahereh Mafi
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Mafi at BookCon in 2018
Born (1988-11-09) November 9, 1988 (age 36)
Connecticut, United States
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIranian-American
Alma mater Soka University
Genre Young Adult literature
Notable worksShatter Me
Spouse
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(m. 2013)​
Children1
Website
taherehmafi.com

Tahereh Mafi (November 10, 1988) is an Iranian-American author based in Santa Monica, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction.

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Early life

Mafi was born on November 9, 1988, in a small town in Connecticut. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers. [1] Mafi's parents are immigrants from Iran. [2] At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County. [3]

Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. She later graduated from the Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. [2] She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language. [1]

Career

Mafi stated that before writing her first novel, Shatter Me , she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book. [4]

Shatter Me was published on November 15, 2011. Since then, Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been released. Mafi has 5 novellas that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me, Fracture Me', Shadow Me, Reveal Me, and Believe Me. [5] Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox. [2]

In August 2016 Mafi released Furthermore, a middle-grade fiction novel about a pale girl living in a world of great color and magic of which she has none. [6]

In April 2017, Mafi announced another trilogy in the Shatter Me universe following the same cast of characters. The first installment, Restore Me, is told from a dual-POV from Juliette Ferrars and Warner, the protagonist and antagonist, respectively, in the original trilogy. Restore Me was published on March 6, 2018.

Mafi's next book, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, was released on October 16, 2018. It was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. [7]

Personal life

Mafi currently resides in Irvine, California, where she continues to write. [8] In 2013 she married author Ransom Riggs. [8] [9] In March 2017, Mafi announced via Twitter that she was pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter, Layla, on 30 May 2017. [10] [11] She identifies as Muslim. [12]

Bibliography

The Shatter Me series

Novellas

The Shatter Me series: The New Republic (spin-off to The Shatter Me series)

Furthermore series

This Woven Kingdom series

Standalones

Compilations

References

  1. 1 2 "Tahereh Mafi Bio". Epic Readers: Your World. Your Books. HarperCollins Publishing.
  2. 1 2 3 Minzesheimer, Bob (17 November 2011). "New Voices". USA Today. Academic Search Complete. p. 2d. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Not Just for Kids: Author Tahereh Mafi discusses 'Shatter Me'". LA Times. 2011-11-28. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Tahereh Mafi's dystopia in the 'Shatter Me' series". GMA News Online. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Tahereh Mafi". Tahereh Mafi: young Adult Author. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "'Shatter Me' author Tahereh Mafi previews next project, 'Furthermore'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  7. ↑ "National Book Awards 2018 – National Book Foundation". www.nationalbook.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  8. 1 2 Kellogg, Carolyn (2014-01-09). "Ransom Riggs and Tahereh Mafi's home for bestselling authors". Los Angeles Times. ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  9. ↑ "The Future of Books Is Experimental: At Home with Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs". Mental Floss. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  10. ↑ "birth announcement". Instagram.
  11. ↑ "How Author Tahereh Mafi Made Her Family-Friendly Kitchen Her Own". Architectural Digest. August 2, 2021.
  12. ↑ Nordstrom, Leigh (2021-08-19). "Tahereh Mafi Explores Being a Muslim Woman in Post-9/11 America Through Her Writing". WWD. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
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