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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 99 Nights in Logar, which has been longlisted for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and shortlisted 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, where he was also awarded the Henfield Prize for Fiction. His fiction has been published, or is forthcoming, in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018, A Public Space, and The Sewanee Review. His essays have been published at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He currently resides in West Sacramento, California.