Hajer Hosseini, an Afghan author residing in the U.S., has recently announced that she is the recipient of this prestigious literary award.
The award, valued at $50,000, was given to her for her poetry collection titled “Disbound.”
Her poetry collection “Disbound” is approximately eighty pages long.
Hajer Hosseini is an Afghan poet and translator living in the United States. She spent part of her childhood in Iran as a refugee and returned to Kabul with her family in 2004 when she was 13 years old.
Ms. Hosseini migrated to the U.S. at the age of 24. In addition to writing poetry, she also translates and has published several books.
Alongside her writing, she teaches at a university in the United States.
The Whiting Award is one of the prestigious literary awards in the United States, given annually to young and talented writers and poets.
This year, the award was presented to ten outstanding writers, including Hajer Hosseini.
In 2020, the award was also given to another Afghan writer named Arya Aaber.
