ناهید راچلین
ناهید راچلین نویسنده ایرانی -الاصل سبک تخیلی به زبان انگلیسی میباشد. وی چندین جایزه و بورس ادبی از جمله جایزه "پن" را به خود اختصاص داده است. وی علاوه بر ۴ کتاب داستانی عمده، یک کتاب هم بر اساس زندگی خود نوشته است به نام "دختران پارسی." آثار وی علاوه بر انگلیسی به زبانهای عربی، فارسی، ایتالیایی، هلندی، و پرتغالی منتشر شده اند. وی در سمینارها و مراکز معتبر و همچنین در دانشگاه معتبر ییل آمریکا کتاب و داستان نویسی انگلیسی را تدریس کرده است و اکنون هم استاد دانشگاه "نیو اسکول" و مرکز شعر اونتربرگ در نیویورک میباشد.
Nahid Rachlin, born in Iran, came to the United States to attend college and stayed. Among her publications are a memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin), four novels, JUMPING OVER FIRE (City Lights), FOREIGNER (W.W. Norton), MARRIED TO A STRANGER (E.P.Dutton), THE HEART'S DESIRE (City Lights),and a collection of short stories, VEILS(City Lights).
Her work has been published in Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Farsi, Arabic. All her published books are currently in print in paperback editions and are available at chain stores as well as independent ones. They are also widely used in college courses.
Her individual short stories have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook, Shenandoah, New Letters. They have been reprinted in several anthologies, including, Literature, The Human Experience, St. Martin's Press. Her essays have been published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series and in an anthology, How I Learned to Cook and other writings On Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships, Penguin. She has written reviews for the New York Times and Newsday.
While a student she held a Doubleday-Columbia fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford). The grants and awards she has received include, the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Currently she teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. She has taught at Yale University and Barnard College. She is an associate fellow at Yale. The Writers conferences she has taught at include: Geneva,Switzerland Writers Conference, Paris Summer Writers conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Aspen, Taos, Southampton College, Hofstra University, Iowa University, Centrum, Marymount Manhattan College, Writers in Paradise, Florida, Antioch, Abroad Writers Conference, Rutgers.
