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I grew up in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and now live in Newark, USA. My debut novel, AMERICAN FEVER, is forthcoming from Sceptre and Arcade in August 2022 (pre-order here).

My work has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, among others. I won the 2021 Salam Award and the 2019 Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize. In 2022, I was one of the individuals selected for Forbes 30 Under 30. I graduated from Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.

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Agent: Matthew Turner at Rogers, Coleridge & White

US Publicity: Lilly Golden at Skyhorse Publishing

UK Publicity: Louise Court at Sceptre

Film Rights: Shivani Doraiswami at Grandview LA

DUR E AZIZ AMNA

American Fever

Forthcoming August 2022. 










"A funny and affecting novel...a wonderful new spin on the coming-of-age story. A smart, charming debut." (Kirkus Review, starred)

"A fascinating mix of immigrant tale, coming-of-age narrative, and cultural exposition...tackling some of the big migration questions of home and identity." (Booklist)

"Brave, tender-hearted, and painfully bittersweet, American Fever...announces Dur e Aziz Amna as a brilliant new voice." (Fatima Farheen Mirza)

“This is a fearless, exacting, essential work." (Peter Ho Davies)

“Rarely does a book sharpen how you see the world around you, but American Fever does just that. It dazzled me on every page.” (Julie Buntin)

"A brilliant exploration of the sacred, scary moment when a girl comes into the wider world.” (Benjamin Moser)

“Hira’s...biting intelligence, her irreverence, and her wit blazes through this riveting, brilliant novel. A searing debut.” (Aamina Ahmad)

"An extraordinarily assured and gripping debut." (Ayşegül Savaş)


For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. 

On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama.  A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down. 

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