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Jumaana Abdu Jumaana Abdu i(20034122 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Egyptian ; Palestinian
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BiographyHistory

'Jumaana Abdu is an Australian-born Egyptian-Palestinian [studying] medicine at UNSW. A young fiction writer and poet, she was the recipient of the 2018 UNSW Literary Journal Poetry Prize and the 2013 Whitlam Institute’s What Matters? overall prize. She has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Vector Journal, and the UNSWeetened Literary Journal.' (https://overland.org.au/2020/08/fiction-late-night-shopping/

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Personal Awards

2023 winner Dal Stivens Award
2023 runner up Peter Carey Short Story Award for 'A Woman of Ninevah'.
2021 recipient The Next Chapter Mentorship
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