Jumaana Abdu
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Jumaana Abdu

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Jumaana Abdu is a Dal Stivens Award winner and an alumnus of the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter program. Her work features in Thyme Travellers (Roseway Publishing), an international anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction. She has been published elsewhere in Kill Your Darlings, Westerly, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Liminal, Overland, Debris and New Australian Fiction 2024. During the day, she is a medical doctor.

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Jumaana Abdu

Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards

'Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.'
HANNAH KENT

'Translations is a joy to read.'
Stella judges' report

Shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize

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