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Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar (born 1978) is an American writer and translator. Her first novel, the coming-of-age story ''A Map of Home'' (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Since then she has published short stories, essays, the collection, ''Him, Me, Muhammad Ali'' (2016), and the memoir, ''Love Is an Ex-Country'' (2021). She teaches creative writing in an MFA program at California State University at Fresno. Biography Randa Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago, to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. After the Gulf War in 1991, she and her family returned to the United States, living in the New York area. Jarrar studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She is a creative writing professor at California State University. Of her writing, author and critic Mat Johnso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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