Sara Khalili

Sara Khalili is a financial journalist, editor, and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. She won a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant for her translation from the Farsi of Seasons of Purgatory, a selection of short stories by Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour.

Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan by Siamak Herawi
By Siamak Herawi

Siamak Herawi
New York. Archipelago Books. 2023. 340 pages. Tali Girls, Afghan author Siamak Herawi’s first novel to be translated into English (melodically, by Sara Khalili), is a propulsive and…
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
By Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour
New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2022. 208 pages. THE NINE BLISTERING, sometimes fantastical short stories in exiled Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour’s first collection to appear…
Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour
By Shahriar Mandanipour

Shahriar Mandanipour
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2018. 452 pages. It would be an understatement to call Moon Brow, the latest novel by Shahriar Mandanipour (translated from Persian by Sara Khalili), anything but “w…
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons by Goli Taraghi
By Goli Taraghi

Goli Taraghi
Sara Khalili, tr. New York. W. W. Norton. 2015 (© 2013). ISBN 9780393063332 Goli Taraghi, a renowned Iranian female author, now in her seventies, has lived in Iran, the US, and France and has written…
The Shipwrecked
By Moniru Ravanipour
March 2015
Moniru Ravanipour
To accompany Omid Fallahazad’s interview with Ravanipour that appears in the March 2015 print edition, the Feminist Press has generously granted WLT permission to reprint the title story…
The Shipwrecked: Contemporary Stories by Women from Iran

Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, ed. Faridoun Farrokh & Sara Khalili, tr. New York. Feminist Press at CUNY. 2014. ISBN 9781558618688 The Shipwrecked: Contemporary Stories by Women from Iran emph…