Ava Homa
Author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire
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- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Kurdistan, Iran
- Agent
- Chris Kepner
- Short biography
- Ava Xan Homa was born in East Kurdistan and educated in both Iran and Canada, she holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Tehran and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor. Ava was exiled in 2007 leaving her family and friends behind her in Kurdistan. She is among the few Kurdish female authors who write about the Kurdish community and history. In 2010 TSAR Publications published her debut collection of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land, which was nominated for 2011 Frank O’Conner International Short Story Prize and was chosen as one of ten People’s Choice finalists in the 2011 Readers’ Choice Award running concurrently with Giller Prize.
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HEART WRENCHING is the best description for this book. Congratulations to Ava Homa. She is the first female Kurdish writer to have a book published in English. Set in Iran readers are brought into a Kurdish family. It is a novel that is far more than a story about a female who is caught in cultural misogyny. It is the story o the problems that the stateless Kurds face daily. Homa is talented. She’s created a novel with complex characters who are striving for a place in which to belong.
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- Rating
- 3.6
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This debut novel is exceptionally well-written. I frequently marveled at the elegance of the prose, even more impressive in that Homa isn't writing in her native tongue. I'm rather ashamed to admit I had only a vague sense of Kurdish people as an oppressed minority in Iraq, nor did I realize that their traditional homeland is actually spread out over multiple nations, and that they are persecuted in all of them. In that sense, among others, this novel was eye-opening in a shocking but also admittedly welcome way. Heartbreaking but highly recommended, and an important voice.… (more)