Fowzia Karimi is an Afghan-American [1] author and illustrator who won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2011.
Karimi was born in Kabul and relocated to the United States in 1980. [2]
She has a masters in fine arts degree from Mills College at Northeastern University, in California. [2]
Karimi won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award [3] in 2011. [2] She illustrated Micheline Aharonian Marcom's 2017 book The Brick House. [4] She illustrated the Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner's translation of Goethe's Faust, published by Deep Vellum Books, in 2020. [5]
Karimi is the author of the illustrated book Above us the Milky Way: An Illuminated Alphabet, published by Deep Vellum, in 2020). [6] [3] The book was Karimi's first, is autobiographical, and incorporates family photographs and watercolour paintings. [7] The book follows the stories of five sisters, who are born in Afghanistan and relocate to the United States. [8] It was described by D Magazine as "gorgeous". [7] It was re-released in audiobook format in 2021. [9] The book inspired the 2022 exhibit Above Us the Milky Way in Void Gallery, Belfast. [10]
She was a Neustadt International Prize for Literature jury member in 2022. [11]
Katherine Womelsdorf Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
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