Saïd Sayrafiezadeh longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is one of the 19 authors longlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson prize.

WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE is about growing up in the heartland of capitalism as the son of would-be socialist revolutionaries: a sincere and sensitive depiction of a small boy's view of the adult world.

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WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE has also been named as one of the Ten Best Books of 2009, as selected by Dwight Garner of The New York Times.

Saïd will be reading at KGB Bar in New York on Wednesday, April 28.