About Fereshteh Molavi
Immigrated to Canada in 1998, Fereshteh Molavi is an
Iranian native writer who has worked as a bibliographer
and scholar, as well as a freelance editor and
translator. While still living in Iran, she published
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 winner Canadian
writer. Molavi 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, US, and Canada. Her latest collection of short
stories in Persian,
The
Wandering Nightingale,
was released in Tehran in 2005.
Molavi is a member of PEN Canada.
