Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy which includes The Age of Orphans (2009), The Walking (2013), and A Good Country (2017).

Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, VQR, and The Sun.

She has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2000 and her films have been screened in festivals and on various cable networks. 

• MFA Mills College

• National Endowment for the Arts Award

• Barnes and Noble Discover New Writer Award

• Whiting Award

• Pushcart Prize

• Emory Fiction Fellowship

• Wisconsin Fiction Fellowship

• Khadivi, L. (2017). A Good Country. New York: Bloomsbury USA

• Khadivi, L. (2013). The Walking. New York: Bloomsbury USA

• Khadivi, L. (2009). The Age of Orphans. London: Bloomsbury Publishing