The author’s second novel is a complex and deadpan funny celebration of literature.
“Call Me Zebra” author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel “Call Me Zebra” has won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
“It still feels like a dream to me,” Van der Vliet Oloomi, 35, said by phone Friday of her win. “I have moments where my understanding unfolds a little bit more and then I just sit there staring at the wall and I can’t believe my fate.” “Once in a while a singular, adventurous and intellectually humorous voice appears that takes us on an inescapable journey,” the judges wrote in a statement. “Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s ‘Call Me Zebra’ is a library within a library, a Borges-esque labyrinth of references from all cultures and all walks of life. In today’s visual Netflix world, Ms. Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel performs at the highest of levels in accomplishing only what the written novel can show us.
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