Delphine Minoui, a recipient of the Albert Londres Prize for her reporting on Iraq and Iran, is a journalist and Middle East correspondent for Le Figaro. Born in Paris in 1974 to a French mother and an Iranian father, she now lives in Istanbul. Emma Ramadan lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is the co-owner of Riffraff bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, an NEA fellowship, and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Previous translations include the genderless novel Sphinx by Anne Garreta.
"""Delphine Minoui's poignant new book is a love letter, by turns devastating and joyful, to a country and a people whose history is deeply intertwined with that of the West. Lucidly observed and passionately explored, the Iran of her telling will be a revelation as much to the expert as to the uninitiated."" --Gina B. Nahai, author of The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith ""[Delphine Minoui] weaves the implications of international affairs and strife with family identity and pride in a way that only a talented journalist could."" --Sophie Matthews, Women.com ""Compelling . . . Minoui's account of her search for her own heritage is gripping."" --Laurna Strikwerda, The Christian Century ""Riveting . . . Full of suspense and surprises . . . Readers will be spellbound by this profound and gripping memoir of a woman's search for knowledge, understanding, and identity."" --Publishers Weekly ""This poignant memoir by a French Iranian journalist in the form of a letter to her deceased grandfather recounts a deeply felt 10-year journey to immerse herself in what it means to be Iranian . . . A uniquely rendered chronicle of one woman's personal and professional journey from faith to activism."" --Kirkus ""Exceptional . . . Sensitivity, doubt, and heart each have their part here, in such a way that we ourselves enter into the reality of today's Iran, a reality much richer--and more promising--than we imagine."" --Jean-Claude Guillebaud, Téléobs ""With an inextinguishable curiosity and an independent spirit that neither love for the people nor fear of the regime can dampen she paints . . . an extraordinary gallery of portraits . . . A passionate plunge into a society that is diverse, surprising, dynamic, oppressed . . . The author listens with the subtlety of a writer and the precision of a reporter."" --Philippe Gélie, Le Figaro Littéraire ""A contemporary and intimate vision of Iran."" --Livres Hebdo ""[Delphine Minoui] relates, with the scrupulousness of a notary clerk, the banal, the frightening, and even the marvelous . . . [She] measures everything. And these precise measurements taken over the course of all these years deliver an Iran full of the essence both of humanity and of the divine."" --Jean-Louis le Touzet, Libération ""A very beautiful book . . . [I'm Writing You from Tehran] crosses personal history with contemporary Iranian history."" --Xavier Frère, Républicain Lorrain"