Vancouver writer Nazanine Hozar's debut novel Aria (Knopf $24.95) about an orphan girl's coming of age in revolutionary Iran, was shortlisted for the Amazon/Walrus Annual First Novel Award and an Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Nazanine Hozar was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Canada as a child with her family in 1985. Hozar is a graduate of UBC's creative writing MFA program.

BOOKS:

Aria (Knopf 2019) $24.95 978-0-3458-1182-0

[BCBW 2020]