Daphne Palasi Andreades

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Daphne Palasi Andreades is an American writer, whose debut novel Brown Girls was published in 2022. [1]

Born and raised in Queens, she is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University. Brown Girls, a novel about a group of multicultural young girls growing up in immigrant families in New York City, was published by Random House in 2022. [2]

The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, [3] and longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023. [4]

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References

  1. Sana Goyal, "Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades review – raised by Queens". The Guardian , February 23, 2022.
  2. Sunny Hostin, "A Debut Novel About Friendship, Family and Other Ties That Bind". The New York Times , January 4, 2022.
  3. Segal, Corinne (September 29, 2022). "Here's the shortlist for the Center for Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize". Literary Hub . Archived from the original on December 9, 2022.
  4. Deborah Dundas, "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)". Toronto Star , March 8. 2023.