Sara Khalili

Sara Khalili is an editor and award-winning translator of contemporary Iranian literature, including Shahriar Mandanipour’s novels Moon Brow and Censoring an Iranian Love Story. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award for Mandanipour’s short story collection Seasons of Purgatory, which has also been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. She lives in New York.

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