Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2012) and Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Fiction to Catalonia, Spain. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, GRANTA, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. She has lived in Iran, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She speaks Spanish, Italian, Farsi and some Catalan. English is her native language.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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...
