Randa Jarrar

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Randa Jarrar (born 1978 in Chicago) is a Palestinian-American novelist, short story writer, and translator.

Life

She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to New York at the age of 13.[1] She attended Sarah Lawrence College, and studied creative writing, then went on to receive a MA in Middle Eastern Studies from UT Austin and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. She has taught College Writing, Creative Writing, and Arab-American literature.

A Map of Home has also been published in Taiwan, Germany, Italy, China, and Israel.

She lives in Austin, TX and is at work on a collection of stories and a second novel.

Awards

  • 2004 Million Writers Award for best short story online [2]
  • 2007 Hopwood Award for Best Novel[3]
  • 2008 Chamberlain Prize
  • 2009 Arab American Book Award
  • 2010 Beirut 39 (Best 39 writers of Arab origin under 40)

Bibliography

Translation
  • The Year Of The Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine by Hassan Daoud, 2007. ISBN 9781846590269, Published by Telegram, Paperback
  • Jo Glanville, ed. (2006). Qissat: short stories by Palestinian women. Telegram. ISBN 9781846590122. 
Anthologies
  • Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers, Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, Samantha Schnee (eds), Anchor Books, March 2007, ISBN 9781400079759

References

  1. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=86195&view=full_sptlght
  2. ↑ http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/millionwriters2004.html
  3. ↑ http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/recipients.pdf

External links

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