Mona Awad, author portrait
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Mona Awad

MONA AWAD is the #1 bestselling author of We Love You, Bunny, and the critically acclaimed Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, a two-time finalist for the Giller Prize, and the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her "literary heir" in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.
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