Diana Abu-Jaber
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Diana Abu-Jaber

Literature & Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Raised between Syracuse, NY and Amman Jordan, Diana Abu-Jaber often writes about cultural identity. Her latest work, Fencing With the King, a novel of Middle Eastern intrigue and family dynamics, was featured by Apple books as one of this year’s most-anticipated novels. Her middle grade novel Silverworld is out in paperback from Crown/Random House. Birds of Paradise, won the National Arab American Book Award and was named a top book pick by the Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, and the Oregonian. Her previous Origin, is a literary psychological thriller which has received starred reviews from both Publisher's Weekly and Booklist and won the Northwest Booksellers Award. Her memoir-with-recipes, entitled The Language of Baklava, was a Border's Original Voices selection and was included in Best Food Writing 2005. It also won the 2006 Northwest Booksellers' Award. Her novel, Crescent (W.W. Norton), won the PEN Center Award for Literary fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. It was also named a Notable Book of the Year by the Christian Science Monitor. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz (W.W. Norton) won the Oregon Book award. Abu-Jaber is a professor at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland, Oregon and Miami, Florida.
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