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Fowzia Karimi
Afghan-American author and illustrator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fowzia Karimi is an Afghan-American[1] author and illustrator who won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2011.
Early life and education
Karimi was born in Kabul and relocated to the United States in 1980.[2]
She has a masters in fine arts degree from Mills College at Northeastern University, in California.[2]
Career
Karimi won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[3] in 2011.[2] She illustrated Micheline Aharonian Marcom's 2017 book The Brick House.[4] She illustrated the Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner's translation of Goethe's Faust, published by Deep Vellum Books, in 2020.[5]
Karimi is the author of the illustrated book Above us the Milky Way: An Illuminated Alphabet, published by Deep Vellum, in 2020).[6][3] The book was Karimi's first, is autobiographical, and incorporates family photographs and watercolour paintings.[7] The book follows the stories of five sisters, who are born in Afghanistan and relocate to the United States.[8] It was described by D Magazine as "gorgeous".[7] It was re-released in audiobook format in 2021.[9] The book inspired the 2022 exhibit Above Us the Milky Way in Void Gallery, Belfast.[10]
She was a Neustadt International Prize for Literature jury member in 2022.[11]
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