Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the John Gardner Award, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. She received a 2015 Whiting Writers Award and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award for her debut novel, Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012). Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Fellowship from ART OMI and has appeared in GRANTA, Guernica, The Paris Review, BOMB Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. Her novel AREZU is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2021. Fra Keeler has been translated into Italian by Giulio Perrone Editore in 2015. Call Me Zebra was published in the UK by Alma Books and is forthcoming in Turkey, China, Japan, and Romania. She is Iranian-American and has lived in Catalonia, Italy, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Bit Like Paint-By-Numbers: An Interview with Mara Faye Lethem
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to translator Mara Faye Lethem about linguistic politics, the future of Catalonia, and her path to translation....
Creating a Bridge: A Conversation with Susan Harris, Editorial Director of “Words Without Borders”
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses the importance of translation with Susan Harris, editorial director of "Words Without Borders."...
Catalan Literature in the World: Speaking with Izaskun Arretxe
In her series on Catalan literature, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi speaks with Izaskun Arretxe, head of Institut Ramon Llull in Barcelona....
Call Her by His Name: Caterina Albert and Catalonia’s Tradition of Radical Women
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Kathleen McNerney about writer Caterina Albert and generations of women writers in Catalonia....
The Catalan Paradox, Part V: A Conversation with Enrique Vila-Matas
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to novelist Enrique Vila-Matas in her latest look at Catalan literature....
The Catalan Paradox, Part IV: A Conversation with Chad Post
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature. For this installment, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Chad Post....
The Catalan Paradox, Part III: A Conversation with Peter Bush
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature....
The Catalan Paradox, Part II: Conversation with Translator Mary Ann Newman
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature. In this edition, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to translator Mary Ann Newman....
The Catalan Paradox: Writers, Editors, and Translators on the Literature of a Stateless Language
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature. In this inaugural edition, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Quim Monzó....
LARB Lit: Pluto
Original short fiction from Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi...
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