Fall 2009 UC Denver Live Event Series
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Laleh Khadivi, filmmaker and author
part of the Prison Series: Justice/InJustice
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 • 7pm • Tivoli Turnhalle
Reading from her novel, The Age Of Orphans
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 • 8pm • Starz FilmCenter
Movie screening of her award-winning documentary, 900 Women
Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan Iran and emigrated with her family shortly after the Iranian revolution. In 2002 she began to research the Kurds, particularly their fate in the southwestern region of Iran under the first Shah. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, is the first novel in a trilogy that follows the lives of three generations of Kurdish men as they grapple with landlessness, migration and national identity. She is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award, a Carl Djerassi Fellowship and an Emory Fiction Fellowship and has also worked extensively as a documentary filmmaker receiving a number of grants and awards for her films about women in prison and the criminal justice system. Currently, she is at work on the second novel, The Walking, that tells the story of Reza Khourdi’s youngest son and his move to the United States.
Khadivi represents a small but growing generation of Persian and Persian-American writers. As a fellow of Creative Writing at Emory University, she brings a new perspective to the western novel, and her work investigates the cultural and political struggles of Kurdish people in Iran and bordering countries — a topic much of interest given the light the Iraq war has shed on the Kurds, a people who have been oppressed in three countries over the last century.
Sponsored by: UC Denver Live!, The Copper Nickel, UC Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and UC Denver's College of Arts & Media.
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