Fereshteh Molavi
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Living in Canada since 1998, Fereshteh Molavi is an native Iranian writer who has worked as a bibliographer, scholar, as well as a freelance editor and translator. While still living in Iran, she published several articles and books, among them a novel, The House of Cloud and Wind (1991), and a collection of short stories, The Sun Fairy (1991). Listen to the Reed, a chapbook published by PEN Canada in 2005, is based on her dialogue with Karen Connelly, the award-winning Canadian writer. Fereshteh has been included in anthologies, among them, Afsaneh: Short Stories by Iranian Women (London: Saqi, 2005) and Speaking in Tongues: PEN Canada Writers in Exile (The Banff Centre Press, 2005). Her stories and essays have been published in various Persian and English magazines and anthologies. She has had readings in Sweden, the US and Canada. Her latest collection of short stories in Persian, The Wandering Nightingale, was released in Tehran in 2006. Fereshteh has a bilingual English / Persian literary website.