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National Book Foundation > Author > Solmaz Sharif
Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs and Look, a Finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. More about this author >
Solmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family’s and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. More about this book >
Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs and Look, a Finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently the Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.
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