Evelyn Shakir American Writer
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| First Name |
Evelyn
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| Last Name |
Shakir
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1937
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| Birthplace |
West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| Died |
2010
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| Place of Death |
West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Academic, author
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) was a pioneer in the study of Arab American literature, publishing some of the first academic papers to name Arab American literature as a field. She published several books, including Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America, a 2007 short story collection that won the Arab American National Book Award. Her memoirs were published posthumously as Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Memoirs of an Arab-American Woman (Boston: Olive Branch Press, 2014). She is remembered on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail, and the Arab American Book Award nonfiction prize was renamed in her honor.
