Jumaana Abdu

Jumaana Abdu was a Wheeler Centre Fellow and a finalist in the 2022 Ray Koppe/ASA Young Writers Award. Jumaana has been mentored by Hannah Kent who says of Translations ‘ I loved its consideration of language, its interrogation of selfhood, and the beautifully complex central character, Aliyah.’ Her work has been published in Kill Your Darlings and the Sydney Morning Herald and, by day, she is a junior doctor at Liverpool Hospital. She’s also working on another novel idea as well as a possible collection of short stories