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“In this dazzling tale, Kochai has brought his culture’s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters, and for this, I am 99 times grateful.”

~ Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

99 Nights in Logar

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Jamil Jan Kochai is the O. Henry Prize winning author of the debut novel 99 Nights in Logar, which has been longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. He was a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018, A Public Space, and The Sewanee Review. He currently resides in Sacramento, California.