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Kawai Strong Washburn
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Kawai
Strong
Washburn |
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Hawai‘i, USA |
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writer, scholar |
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American |
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Biography
Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i. His first novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel and the 2021 Minnesota Book Award; it was also longlisted for the 2020 Center For Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Former US President Barack Obama chose it as a favorite novel of 2020, and it was selected as a notable or best book of the year by over a dozen publications, including the New York Times and Boston Globe. It has also been translated into eight languages and counting. Washburn lives with his wife and two daughters in Minneapolis.
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