Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Author of The Saddlebag
About the Author
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani teaches English at the Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg.
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- Birthdate
- 1948
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Iran
- Places of residence
- France
- Education
- Dr Williams School, Dolgellau, United Kingdom
- Occupations
- writer
- Awards and honors
- Doctorats Honoris Causa, University of Liège (2007)
- Short biography
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a Persian writer who grew up in Uganda and was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. She now lives in France where she teaches. She taught European and American literature in Belgium.
In 2007, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani received the honorary doctorate Doctorats Honoris Causa from the University of Liège.[1] Her books have been translated into many languages.
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- Works
- 16
- Members
- 393
- Popularity
- #61,674
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 15
- ISBNs
- 49
- Languages
- 8
I'm afraid I have let Fionnuala down, agreeing to read this book she highly favours. After 100 tortuous pages I have decided not to finish it. There was a clue. I've been reading a lot over the last months until suddenly I was given The Leopard, and Us and Them arrived in the mail. They have made my reading life so miserable that I have started watching TV shows on my small screen rather than spend an evening with either book. I almost never watch TV! What am I doing?? And I have hundreds of wonderful books on my shelves all saying 'read me'.
Life's too short. The gift of reading might be the thing that we are likely last to lose, but lose it we will. And I have so much I'd like to get through.
In the case of Us & Them, I won't even say it's not you, it's me. To me it had the alienness of My Name is Red. In that case I did blame myself, but that was because I thought the first of Pamut's I read was a masterpiece. Here I have a blank past.
Sorry Fionnula. The good news is that a local library in Adelaide now has a copy of this book as I asked them to purchase it. I hope others will find it more rewarding.… (more)