Saturday, November 6, 11 a.m. Central

Join us for a virtual story time reading of IN THE MEADOW OF FANTASIES, written by Hadi Mohammadi, illustrated by Nooshin Safakhoo, and translated by Sara Khalili. The book will be read by Safakhoo and Khalili, and the reading will be followed by a conversation between them about this "whirling mixture" of folktale, poem, and dream (Publishers Weekly).

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Nooshin Safakhoo was born in Tehran in 1980. After teaching painting classes and illustrating magazine articles, she began a long career of painting precise, lyrical images for children's books, including The Owl & the Jaybird and Shahname. Her illustrations for In the Meadow of Fantasies have earned her numerous awards, including from the NAMI Concours; and she has been selected three times to show her work at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include Moon Brow and Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour, The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons by Goli Taraghi, The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, Kissing the Sword by Shahrnush Parsipur, and Rituals of Restlessness by Yaghoub Yadali. Her translation of Tali Girls by Afghan novelist Siamak Herawi is forthcoming from Archipelago.