Nada Awar Jarrar

Nada Awar Jarrar is a Lebanese novelist. Her novel, Somewhere, Home, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia and South Pacific.

She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington D.C. She is married; they have a daughter and live in Beirut.[1]

Works

• Somewhere, home, Heinemann, 2003, ISBN 978-0-434-01033-2
• Dreams of Water, Harper, 2007, ISBN 978-0-00-722196-7
• A good land, HarperCollins, 2009, ISBN 978-0-00-722197-4[2]
• An Unsafe Haven, The Borough Press, 2016[3]

Non-fiction

• Henderson, Mark (July 27, 2006). "A family at war". The Times. London.

References

1. http://www.harpercollins.com.au/authors/50024662/Nada_Awar_Jarrar/index.aspx
2. Hagestadt, Emma (January 29, 2010). "A Good Land, By Nada Awar Jarrar (review)". The Independent. London.
3. Cowdrey, Catherine (02 February, 2016) Borough Press buys novel inspired by refugee crisis The Bookseller

External links

• Dawn Mirapuri (2009). "Meditations on Memory and Belonging". In Layla Al Maleh (ed.). Arab voices in diaspora: critical perspectives on anglophone Arab literature. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2718-3.

Reviews

• "Reviews", Third Way, April 2007
• "Dreams of Water", Gutter Poetry in the Arab World, November 22, 2008