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.

Books by Jumaana Abdu
Translations
Jumaana Abdu

Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
Shortlisted, Stella Prize
Shortlisted, Readings New Australian Fiction Prize
Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Shortlisted, MUD Literary Prize
Longlisted, Voss Literary Prize

'Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.'
HANNAH KENT

'Translations is a joy to read.'
Stella judges' report

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Two Penguin authors make the shortlist for the 2025 Stella Prize

Congrats to Samah Sabawi, author of Cactus Pear For My Beloved and Jumaana Abdu, author of Translations!

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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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