Dorit Rabinyan was born in 1972 and raised in the
town of
Kfar Saba, Israel, to a family that had
emigrated from Iran a few years earlier. Dorit lives in
Tel Aviv.
``I
started writing Persian Brides
when I was 21. The plot
is based
on my grandmother's personal
story.
She was my inspiration for the character
Nasie, the heroine of the book. I
had no intention of educating the reader
when I wrote this novel,
but I take my reader with me on a feminine odyssey
to fantastic Iran in the beginning of the century.
My
second novel, was published in Israel in March 1999,
and will be published in English sometime this year.
These days I spend my time collecting
material for a third novel.''
