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Randa Jarrar

Wednesday, 03 September 2008

Biography:

Randa Jarrar was born in 1978 to an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father in Chicago and grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. She is a writer, translator and columnist. Her short story "The Lunatics' Eclipse" appeared has appeared in Ploughshares.
Jarrar's translations from Arabic have appeared in Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers and she has has translated Hassan Daoud’s novel, Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine.
Her first novel "A Map of Home" was published in 2008 and won the Hopwood and Geoffrey James Gosling Awards at the University of Michigan.

To know more about Randa Jarrar, visit her blog.