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about the authors & works
Najat El Hachmi
Najat El Hachmi (born inMorocco, 1979) emigratedwithher family
to the Catalonian region of Spain at the age of eight. Her novel
The Last Patriarch
(2008), dealing with themes of migration, won
the prestigious Ramon Llull prize for Catalonian literature, and she
has helped represent Catalonian literature at venues throughout
Europe.
The Foreign Daughter
, her third novel, is steeped in the beautiful
minutae of Catalan life and culture, in the context of a woman
deeply examining and assessing what role cultural identity and
otherness might play in navigating some of life’s larger questions.
Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush.