| farah ashraf |
An American writer of Indian origin, she was born in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island, USA. She obtained a BA in English from Barnard College, and completed her graduate studies at Boston University. She obtained a master's degree in English and a master's degree in creativity, but she specialized in literature written in English. Her first collection of short stories (Interpreter of Maladies) in 1999 won the Hemingway Award for Best First Short Story in the same year, and the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Short Stories in 2000. The Arabic translation of this collection was published by the Egyptian Marwa Hashem in 2009. As for her novel (The Namesake) in 2003, it was adapted into a film with the same title directed by the Indian Mira Nair in 2006. The Arabic edition of this novel was published with the translation of the Jordanian Sura Khreis in 2014. Her second collection of short stories (Unaccustomed Earth) in 2008 ranked first on the New York Times best-selling books list that year, and won the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Stories in 2008. In 2014, she published a book titled "The Namesake" in Arabic. 2014, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, which is given by the President of the United States in consultation with the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency of the U.S. government.
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