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Dima Alzayat

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Born

Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic

Website

https://dimaalzayat.com/

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Genre

Fiction

Member Since

July 2020

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Dima Alzayat was born in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in San Jose, California. Her short story collection, Alligator and Other Stories (2020), was published by Two Dollar Radio (U.S.) and Picador (U.K.), and has been shortlisted for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection, the 2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, and the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

She is the winner of the 2019 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award, a 2018 Northern Writers’ Award, the 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize, the 2015 Bernice Slote Award, runner-up in the 2018 Deborah Rogers Award and the 2018 Zoetrope: All-Story Competition, and was Highly Commended in the 2013 Bridport Prize.

Her stories have appeared in Esquire, The Adroit Journ ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 538 ratings · 95 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Alligator and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology: Vol 10 by Dima Alzayat (Goodreads Author), Chetna Maroo, Bunmi Ogunsiji 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for the Gift: Stories Inspired by Low by Dima Alzayat (Goodreads Author), Anne Billson (Goodreads Author), Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Everyone said to bear the years. Nothing but time will make it better, they said. But time's a stretched rubber band bound to snap right back into place.”
― Dima Alzayat, Alligator and Other Stories

tags: grief, time

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