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Nada Awar Jarrar

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Nada Awar Jarrar


Born
Lebanon
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Nada Awar Jarrar was born in Lebanon to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father. She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington DC and is currently based in Beirut where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Lebanon's English language newspaper, The Daily Star. Her first novel, Somewhere, Home won the Commonwealth Best First Book award for Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. ...more

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Average rating: 3.3 · 782 ratings · 137 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
An Unsafe Haven
3.37 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions
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Somewhere, Home
3.35 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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A Good Land
3.29 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Dreams of Water
2.92 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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