Zoya Patel

About

Zoya Patel is the author of No Country Woman (Hachette, 2018), and Once A Stranger (Hachette, 2023). She is co-host of The Guardian’s Book It In podcast, and the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen. Zoya is a columnist for the RiotACT, and regular books critic and writer for The Guardian, Canberra Times, SBS Voices, Refinery29 and more. Zoya has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and she was a 2020 judge for the Stella Prize and Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize judging panel.

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The Next Big Thing

Passages of Time [Booked Out]

Bebe Backhouse, J.R. Burgmann, Paul Dalgarno, Monique Nair, Zoya Patel

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20 Mar

Literary Death Match

Laniyuk, Celia Pacquola, Zoya Patel, Vidya Rajan, Sami Shah, Alex Skovron, Nevo Zisin, Adrian Todd Zuniga

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24 Mar

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Clean Break

12 Sep 2019

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