Noor Naga
Noor Naga is a writer, most noted for her 2022 novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English.[1]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Dubai, she was educated in Toronto, Ontario.[2] She was a winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2017 for her poem "The Mistress and the Pig".[3]
In 2020 Naga published the poetry collection Washes, Prays.[2] The book was the winner of the Pat Lowther Award in 2021,[4] and received an honorable mention from the Arab American Book Award for their George Ellenbogen Poetry Award.
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, Naga's debut novel, was shortlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.[5]
References
- ^ Nadia Owusu, "Two Strangers Meet in a Cafe in Cairo. What Happens Next Is Complicated". The New York Times, April 12, 2022.
- ^ a b "Noor Naga on moral decisions, millennial Muslims and modern love". The Sunday Magazine (CBC Radio One), July 31, 2020.
- ^ "Noor Naga wins 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire. May 31, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- ^ Charlie Smith, "Vancouver poet Jillian Christmas and UBC creative writing professor Ian Williams win national awards". The Georgia Straight, May 6, 2021.
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr among five finalists for the 2022 Giller Prize worth $100,000". Toronto Star, September 27, 2022.
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