Shani Boianjiu

Honoree, 2011 5 Under 35

Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem in 1987, from an Iraqi and Romanian background.  She was raised in a small town on the Lebanese border. At the age of 18, she entered the Israeli Defense Forces and served for two years.  She is at work on her first novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid. Learn more >

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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

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Hogarth, an imprint of Crown Publishers

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    Shani Boianjiu

    Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem in 1987, from an Iraqi and Romanian background.  She was raised in a small town on the Lebanese border. At the age of 18, she entered the Israeli Defense Forces and served for two years.  She is at work on her first novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid.

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