Nada Awar Jarrar is a Lebanese

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. Her novel, ''Somewhere, Home'', won the

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, Best First Book, South East Asia and South Pacific. She has lived in

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and

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She is married; they have a daughter and live in

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Works

*''Somewhere, home'', Heinemann, 2003, *''Dreams of Water'', Harper, 2007, *''A good land'', HarperCollins, 2009, * ''An Unsafe Haven'', The Borough Press, 2016Cowdrey, Catherine (02 February, 2016
Borough Press buys novel inspired by refugee crisis

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Non-fiction

References

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* ;Reviews
"Reviews"
''Third Way'', April 2007
"Dreams of Water"
''Gutter Poetry in the Arab World'', November 22, 2008 Lebanese novelists Writers from Beirut Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Lebanese women writers {{Lebanon-writer-stub