Jasmin Darznik

Jasmin Darznik is the author of two books, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life, which became a New York Times bestseller[1] and Song of a Captive Bird, a novel inspired by the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's notorious woman poet. A New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" and a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Song of a Captive Bird was praised by The New York Times as a "complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out." Darznik's books have been published in seventeen countries. Her next book, a novel set in 1920s San Francisco, is forthcoming from Random House/Ballantine.

Jasmin Darznik
Jasmin Darznik discusses her work in 2018
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (BA) University of California, Hastings (JD) Princeton University (PhD) Bennington College (MFA)
Occupation	Writer
Employer	California College of the Arts
Website	jasmin-darznik.com

Biography

Darznik was born in Iran and came to the United States at the age of five.[2][3] She graduated with a BA from the University of California Los Angeles in 1994 and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1997. She later received a PhD in English literature from Princeton University in 2008 and an MFA from Bennington College in 2014.[4] Her first book, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life was described by Kirkus reviews as "an eye-opening account that disturbs with its depiction of the place of women in Iranian society, but warms the heart in its portrayal of their gritty endurance."[5]

Song of a Captive Bird is a fictional account about the trailblazing Iranian poet, Forugh Farrokhzad.

She is now a professor of in the MFA and Writing and Literature programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She previously taught at Princeton University, Washington and Lee University, the University of Virginia, and the University of San Francisco.

Awards

Darznik is a recipient of a 2012 fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities[6] and an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.[7] She has received fellowships from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, The Bennington Writers Seminars, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Her first book, The Good Daughter, was a finalist for the Library of Virginia's 2012 People's Choice Award[8] and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Creative Nonfiction.[9] Song of a Captive Bird was long-listed for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.[10]

Bibliography

• The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life. Grand Central Publishing. 2011. ISBN 978-0446534970
• Song of a Captive Bird. Penguin Random House. February 2018. ISBN 978-0399182310

References

1. Amirrezvani, Anita; Karim, Persis (February 2013). Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers. University of Arkansas Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-1-55728-995-7 – via Google Books.
2. http://dianerehm.org/shows/2011-02-07/jasmin-darznik-good-daughter"
3. "A Photograph Unlocks Decades Of Family Secrets".
4. https://www.wlu.edu/documents/directory/darznikj.pdf
5. "THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Jasmin Darznik - Kirkus Reviews".
6. "Fellowship Program - Virginia Humanities". virginiahumanities.org.
7. "Award Recipients". www.schev.edu.
8. "Library of Virginia Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards". www.lva.virginia.gov.
9. "William Saroyan International Prize for Writing".
10. "The Center for Fiction". www.centerforfiction.org. Retrieved 2019-03-14.

External links

• Official Website
• Random House Author Page
• Faculty webpage at the California College of the Arts