Lila Azam Zanganeh

Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. After studying literature and philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she moved to the United States to teach literature and cinema at Harvard University. She has contributed criticism, interviews, and essays to a host of publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, la Repubblica, and The Paris Review. Her first book, The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (W.W. Norton, 2011), was the recipient of the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism and was translated into thirteen languages. She serves as a director on the Board of Trustees for the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation and as a member of the Advisory Board of Libraries Without Borders. She served as judge for the 2017 Man Booker Prize and for the 2020 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.