Zeyn Joukhadar is a Syrian American writer. Joukhadar is the recipient of the 2021

Stonewall Book Award The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Rainbo ...

s and the

Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction The Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with transgender content. Awards are granted based on literary merit and transgender content, and ther ...

for '' The Thirty Names of Night''.

Biography

Zeyn Joukhadar is nonbinary and uses he/him/they pronouns. Joukhadar is originally from New York City and has a PhD in Pathobiology from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. Prior to pursuing writing full time, he worked as a biomedical research scientist. His first novel, ''The Map of Salt and Stars'', was published in 2018.

Published works

Novels

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Anthology (Fiction)

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Anthology (Non-Fiction)

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Honors and awards

Won

''The Map of Salt and Stars''

* 2018 Middle East Book Award - Youth Literature Award

''The Thirty Names of Night''

* 2021

Stonewall Book Awards The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Rainbo ...

- Barbara Gittings Literature Award * 2021 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Fiction

Nominated

''The Map of Salt and Stars''

* 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist - Historical Fiction * 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist - Debut Author * 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize shortlist - Best Published Novel

Short stories and essays

* 2015 Pushcart Prize -
We Will Tell Our Children
" first published in ''Gulf Stream Literary Magazine'' * 2020 Pushcart Prize -
Incantations for Unsung Boys
" first published in the ''Columbia Journal''

References

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