Noor Naga

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Noor Naga is a Canadian-Egyptian [1] writer, most noted for her 2022 novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English. [2]

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Life

Naga was born in Philadelphia [3] [4] and spent time living in Charleston, South Carolina, until at age seven, [5] she and her family moved to Dubai. [3] [4] She received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. [6] Naga presently lives in Cairo. [7]

Bibliography

Awards and honours

Naga received the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s, [6] as well as the Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Scholarship and Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship from the University of Toronto. [6]

CBC included Naga's Washes, Prays in their "Best Canadian Poetry of 2020" list. [8] If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English received positive media responses, as well. TIME included it on their list of "100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” [9] and BuzzFeed listed it as one of their "Best Books of 2022." [10] Kirkus Reviews also included it on their "Best Fictional Voices of 2022" list. [11]

Awards for Naga's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef
2015 Room's Fiction ContestShortlist [6]
2017"The Mistress and the Ping" RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Winner [1] [6]
2019DISQUIET Fiction PrizeWinner [7] [12]
American Girl and Boy from ShobrakheitGraywolf Press Africa PrizeWinner [13]
RBC/PEN Canada New Voices AwardWinner [14]
2021Washes, Prays George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Honorable mention [15]
Pat Lowther Award Winner [16]
2022If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner [17] [18] [19]
Giller Prize Shortlist [3] [20]
PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award Shortlist [21] [22]

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