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Ava Homa

Critically-acclaimed author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire, Ava Homa is also an activist and a journalist. She holds an MA in English and creative writing from the University of Windsor. Her collection of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Prize, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship.

15 September, 2021 • Ava Homa

Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

The fol­low­ing is excerpt­ed from Chap­ter 14 in Ava Homa’s Daugh­ters of Smoke and Fire and appears in TMR by gra­cious arrange­ment with the author. Ava Homa   When his… Continue reading Flagbearer of a Stateless Nation, from “Daughters of Smoke and Fire”

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15 September, 2021 • Ava Homa

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Ava Homa how state­less­ness, trau­ma and polit­i­cal exile shaped her nov­el Daugh­ters of Smoke and Fire   Com­ing of age as a Kur­dish girl in Iran, I learned ear­ly on that… Continue reading Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

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