Meet Best-Selling Author Gina B. Nahai at NYPL
On November 5th, best-selling author, Gina B. Nahai, will participate in a conversation and joint launch of two anthologies TEHRAN NOIR and TEL AVIV NOIR at the New York Public Library from 7 - 9 pm. These installments are the latest in a series published by the award-winning Akashic Books NOIR series featuring collections of short stories from cities around the world by a variety of perspectives and voices. Nahai will be joined by fellow TEHRAN NOIR contributor Salar Abdoh along with Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron contributors to TEL AVIV NOIR.
She will also be promoting her latest novel, The Luminous Heart of Jacob S. Nahai is an accomplished woman; her books Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Sunday's Silence and Caspian Rain have been translated into 18 languages and have appeared on "Best Books of the Year" lists by the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. She is a columnist, full-time lecturer at USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. Other recognitions include being a finalist for the Orange Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award, the Persian Heritage Foundation’s Award, the Simon Rockower Award, and the Phi Kappa Phi Award. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles magazine, Publishers Weekly, the Huffington Post, and she writes a monthly column for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
