Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983. At the age of 12, she moved to Northern California with her family and graduated in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Translated into 28 languages and published in more than 75...
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Twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983. At the age of 12, she moved to Northern California with her family and graduated in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Translated into 28 languages and published in more than 75 countries, Children of the Jacaranda Tree has been inspired by her family's experience as political prisoners in post-revolutionary Iran. Delijani now lives in Turin, Italy. Children of the Jacaranda Tree is her first novel.
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