If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Name: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
ISBN: 9781952177422

by Noor Naga

PEN/Jean Stein · 2023 · Shortlist

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Graywolf PressSeptember 13, 2022Literary FictionISBN 9781952177422

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award	2023	Shortlist

About This Book

Noor Naga's formally inventive debut novel tells the story of a love affair between an Egyptian-American woman and a man from Alexandria, alternating perspectives to question who has the right to narrate. Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award.

About the Author

Noor NagaCanadian-Egyptian

Noor Naga is a Canadian-Egyptian writer born in Philadelphia, raised in Dubai, educated at the University of Toronto, and currently based in Cairo; she is most noted for her novels If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (2022), winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the poetry collection Washes, Prays (2020), winner of the Pat Lowther Award, among other accolades including the Graywolf Press Africa Prize and Bronwen Wallace Award.