The Book Collectors of Daraya - A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War

Delphine Minoui, a recipient of the Albert Londres Prize for her reporting on Iraq and Iran, is a Middle East correspondent for Le Figaro. Born in Paris in 1974 to a French mother and an Iranian father, she now lives in Istanbul. She is the author of I'm Writing You From Tehran and The Book Collectors of Daraya. Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French.
She is the recipient of two PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and a French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. She lives in Washington, DC.