Source: Public
Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA)
On November 12th, Iranian Americans gathered at Stanford University to honor
Goli Taraghi, who was awarded the Second Annual Bita Prize for Literature and
Freedom.
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Goli Taraghi
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Born in Tehran, Taraghi is one of contemporary
Iran's most eminent writers and essayists, as well as a remarkable story teller
in the tradition of Iran's Shahrzads. She began her career with a collection of
short stories entitled I Am Che Guevara, and has since authored many other books
including Winter Sleep, In Another Place and Scattered Memories. Her recent
collections of stories are The House of Shemiran and The Three Maids. Taraghi
traveled from Iran to accept the award and deliver her talk titled, "My Two
Worlds".
The Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom is part of the Bita Daryabari
Endowment in Persian Letters at Stanford University's Hamid and Christina
Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. The annual prize is given to an artist of
Iranian ancestry whose work has, in the course of that year, singular
achievements in both the realm of aeshetics and in the essence of defending the
right of the artists to create freedom from any fetters.
Bita Daryabari embodies the spirit of humanist philanthropy. Born in Iran, she
has always taken great interest in the world of ideas and literature,
particularly the poetry and prose of Iran. She has created the Bita Daryabari
Endowment in Persian Letters at Stanford University enabling the University to
not only hire visiting and full-time professors of Persian literature, but also
allowing the Iranian Studies Program to organize conferences, teach more courses
in Persian language for all levels of proficiency and offer the annual Bita
Prize for Literature and Freedom.
Click here to learn more
about the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, which is
directed by the renowned scholar and author, Dr. Abbas Milani whose work and
contribution to this article we acknowledge and appreciate.
Related Article:
Iranian poet Simin
Behbahani receives Stanford's Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom
Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient
of Stanford's Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom. The new $10,000
prize is part of the Daryabari Persian Studies Fund, recently endowed by
Bita Daryabari to support and promote teaching, research and scholarship
relating to Iran, including the area formerly known as Persia, and people of
Iranian or Persian heritage.
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