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Jamil Jan Kochai

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Jamil Jan Kochai


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Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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“Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?”
Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

“Bakthawara had long known that Zarghoona did not possess the soul of a martyr and would be doomed to settle for love on earth.”
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“If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone else
took a sip of his chai and began his own story, and so on and so forth, until everyone was given a say and not a single story was actually finished.”
JAMIL JAN KOCHAI, 99 Nights in Logar

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