Dima Alzayat is a Syrian American author and associate lecturer.

Alzayat was born in Damascus, Syria and grew up in San Jose, California.

She is author of the short story collection Alligator and Other Stories, published in 2020. She is represented by the Blake Friedmann agency.[1]

Her stories have appeared in the literary magazine Prairie Schooner.[2]

Awards

Alzayat was awarded the Bernice Slote Award in 2015, and in 2018 the Northern Writers' Award.[3] In 2017 she won the Bristol Short Story Prize for her story Ghusl.[1]

In 2019 she won the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Tom-Gallon Trust Award for Once We Were Syrians.[4]

In 2021 Alzayat was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize[5] and James Tait Black Prize for fiction for Alligator and Other Stories.[6]

She was named the 2022-23 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dima Alzayat's acclaimed collection out in paperback". Bristol Short Story Prize. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  2. ↑ "Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores". bookshop.org. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Interview | Dima Alzayat on Alligator: stories of displacement, cultural myth and inter-generational trauma". www.thelondonmagazine.org. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-22. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  4. ↑ "Society of Authors' Awards | The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  5. ↑ "Debut authors dominate on 'extraordinary' Dylan Thomas prize shortlist". the Guardian. 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  6. ↑ "James Tait Black Prizes shortlists have been announced | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  7. ↑ https://www.pw.org/content/septemberoctober_2022_recent_winners


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