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Jumaana Abdu
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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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19 May
2025

Hurstville, NSW

Jumaana Abdu at Sydney Writers' Festival: Translations

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23 May
2025

Eveleigh, NSW

Jumaana Abdu at Sydney Writers' Festival: STEMMinist Book Club

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Books by Jumaana Abdu

Translations

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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Translations book club questions

A deeply moving novel to read with your book club.

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How Jumaana Abdu wrote her debut novel while finishing medical school

Plus, learn the backstory behind her book’s protagonist.

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