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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Jamaluddin Aram

Ontario

JAMALUDDIN ARAM is an Afghan-Canadian writer. His short story “This Hard Easy Life” was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award in 2020. His debut novel, Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday, won the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Literary Fiction. He is the associate producer of the Oscar-nominated film Buzkashi Boys. He lives in Toronto.

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