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.

Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour

By Shahriar Mandanipour

July 2018
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

September 2015
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

March 2015

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...