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Nada Awar Jarrar
(1958 - )
Born in Beirut to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father, Nada
Awar Jarrar attended school at the International College in
Beirut and went on to complete an undergraduate degree in
the History and Politics of the Middle East at the School of
Oriental and African Studies at London University. She subsequently
gained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the
American University in Washington DC.
She lived in London, Paris, Washington DC and Sydney before
returning to Beirut in the mid-1990s where she worked as a
journalist on The Daily Star, Lebanon’s only English-language
newspaper.
Her first novel, Somewhere, Home, was published in 2003 by Heinemann
UK and won the Commonwealth Best First Book award for Southeast Asia
and the South Pacific. Dreams of Water, her second novel, was
published by Harper Collins UK in 2007, and her third novel, A Good
Land, also published by Harper Collins UK, was shortlisted for Best
Book for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Nada is now based in Beirut where she lives with her husband Bassem
and their daughter Zeina. She is working on her fourth novel.
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