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Kenan Orhan

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Kenan Orhan is a writer based in Kansas. His first story collection, I Am My Country, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2024. His first novel, The Renovation, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2026. His fiction appears in the Atlantic, Paris Review, Common and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories.

Books by Kenan Orhan
The Renovation
Kenan Orhan

A modern classic in the making - a heartbreaking portrait of one Turkish family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, political oppression, and the painful absurdity of love

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I Am My Country
Kenan Orhan
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