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Samina Ali

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Samina Ali is an award-winning author, curator, and popular speaker. Her debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004), was the winner of France’s prestigious Prix Premier Roman Etranger Award and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Her most recent book, Pieces You’ll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival, will be published by Catapult in March 2025.

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