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| Born | April 10, 1991 California, U.S. |
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Fatima Farheen Mirza Ahmed (born April 10, 1991) is an American novelist best known for her novel A Place for Us (2018), [1] which was a New York Times Best Seller. [2] She was also honored by the National Book Award Foundation as a "5 Under 35" Honoree in 2020.
Mirza was born and raised in California. [3] Her parents are both of Indian descent; her mother grew up to a British Indian family in Birmingham, while her father immigrated to the United States from Hyderabad. [4] She grew up in an observant Muslim family. [5] Mirza attended the University of California, Riverside, where she pursued medical studies at first but made a career shift to creative writing as an undergraduate. [3] She later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop [3] [6] [7] and received the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. [8] She has taught at the University of Iowa and New York University. [9]
Mirza submitted the book manuscript for her debut novel A Place for Us for publication in 2017. [10] The 400-page novel [11] was the first book to be published by actor Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint in collaboration with Crown Publishing Group, called SJP for Hogarth. [12] A Place for Us took Mirza eight years to write, [10] and explores the shifting dynamics in a Muslim immigrant family living in the States after having immigrated from Hyderabad, India. The novel was reviewed by the New York Times, [13] the Los Angeles Review of Books , [14] and The Washington Post. [15] The book was a 2018 bestseller, [2] and was named among the best books of 2018 by The Washington Post, [16] Buzzfeed, [17] and People magazine. [18] She has been a guest on a number of podcasts celebrating her writing career such as Riff Raff, [19] Books with Jen, [20] Shalwar Kameez Dreams [21] and Bridge India’s Voices. [22]
Mirza was nominated by author Tommy Orange as an honoree for the National Book Award Foundation's 5 under 35. [23]
Mirza married British actor Riz Ahmed in 2020 after meeting at a coffee shop in Brooklyn in 2018. [24] [25] [26]
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