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Diana Abu-Jaber is an author and a teacher at Portland State University . She was born in 1960 in Syracuse, New York . Her father was Jordinian and her mother was American, descended from Irish and German roots. At the age of seven she moved with her family for two years to Jordan .


EDUCATION



ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS



AWARDS

  • National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship

  • PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novelist, Finalist

  • Oregon Book Award

  • Story Magazine Short Story Contest, Finalist

  • Fulbright Research Award, Amman, Jordan

  • International Writers NEA Fellowship in Fiction

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar

  • Guest Fiction Editor, Seattle Review

  • Pushcart Prize Finalist, short fiction

  • Judge, National Endowment for the Arts Fiction/Nonfiction Fellowship Competition

  • Named one of the "Top Women Writers 2003" by Vanity Fair Magazine

  • '' Crescent '' named one of Twenty Noteworthy Novels of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor

  • Northwest Distinguished Author Award from Willamette Writers

  • American Book Award

  • PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction

  • '' Language Of Baklava '' named Booksense Notable Book, April



BIBLIOGRAPHY


Fiction
  • ''Crescent''

  • ''Arabian Jazz''


Nonfiction/Memoir
  • ''The Language of Baklava''


She has also authored many short stories, both fiction and nonfiction.