Jumaana Abdu
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Jumaana Abdu is a Dal Stivens Award winner and an alumnus of the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter program. Her work features in Thyme Travellers (Roseway Publishing), an international anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction. She has been published elsewhere in Kill Your Darlings, Westerly, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Liminal, Overland, Debris and New Australian Fiction 2024. During the day, she is a medical doctor.
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Jumaana Abdu at Sydney Writers' Festival: Translations
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Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.
HANNAH KENT
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize.
Shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize.
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How Jumaana Abdu wrote her debut novel while finishing medical school
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