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Noor Naga is a Canadian-Egyptian writer, most noted for her 2022 novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English.

Life

Naga was born in Philadelphia and spent time living in Charleston, South Carolina, until at age seven, she and her family moved to Dubai. She received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Naga presently lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Bibliography

• Washes, Prays (2020)
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (2022)

Awards and honours

Naga received the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s, the Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Scholarship, and the Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Scholarship from the University of Toronto.

CBC included Naga's Washes, Prays in their "Best Canadian Poetry of 2020" list. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English received positive media responses, as well. TIME included it on their list of "100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” and BuzzFeed listed it as one of their "Best Books of 2022." Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review and included it on their "Best Fictional Voices of 2022" list.

References

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22. "Announcing the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 2023-02-15. Archived from the original on 2023-02-20. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
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External links

• Official website

• 21st-century Canadian novelists
• 21st-century Canadian poets
• 21st-century Canadian women writers
• 21st-century Egyptian poets
• 21st-century Egyptian women writers
• 21st-century Egyptian writers
• Canadian women poets
• Canadian women novelists
• Egyptian women poets
• Egyptian women novelists
• Living people
• University of Toronto alumni