Description
Author: Leilah Nadir
Publisher: Read Leaf
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.28w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9781927018354
ISBN10: 1927018358
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Leilah Nadir has a master's degree in English Literature from Edinburgh University and a joint honours bachelor's degree in English and history from McGill University. She has worked in the publishing industry in London and Vancouver. Her memoir The Orange Trees of Baghdad won the George Ryga award in 2008 and has been published in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Italy, Turkey and France. Since the invasion of Iraq, she has written and broadcast political commentaries for the CBC, The Globe and Mail and The Georgia Straight. She also writes fiction and has published stories in Descant magazine and articles in Brick magazine and the anthology How They See Us: Meditations on America. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and two children. Visit her website at www.leilahnadir.com