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Roya Hakakian

| birth_date = ca. 1966 | birth_place = Tehran, Iran | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = | language = Persian, English | nationality = | citizenship = American | education = | alma_mater = Brooklyn College | period = | genre = non-fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Journey from the Land of No'', ''Assassins of the Turquoise Palace'', (''For the Sake of Water''), (''A Name to Worship''), ''A Beginners' Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curious'' | spouse(s) = | partner(s) = | relative(s) = | awards = 2004 Best Book of the Year (Publishers Weekly), 2004 Best Non-fiction Book of the Year (''Elle''), 2006 Latifeh Yarshater Book Award (Persian Heritage Foundation), 2006 Award for the Best Memoir (Connecticut Center for the Book), 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Non-fiction, 2011 AJC Long Island Woman of Valor Award, 2017 Asian American Literary Award (AAWW). | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Roya Hakakian (; born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish journalist, lecturer, and writer. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called ''Journey from the Land of No'' (Crown), ''Assassins of the Turquoise Palace'' (Grove/Atlantic), and ''A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious'' (Knopf).

Deeply influenced by both the longstanding literary traditions of her birth country and its historical turmoils, Roya Hakakian often draws her inspirations from highly political subjects and treats them with lyricism. She takes on the most pressing and difficult contemporary sociopolitical issues —exile, persecution, censorship— and injects them with relevance and urgency through her deeply observant and poetic sensibility to make these subjects accessible to all readers. Provided by Wikipedia