How to pronounce Zoulfa Katouh: ZOUL-fah kah-TOO ("zoul" rhymes with "soul")
Zoulfa Katouh is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novel As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue. Her books have been translated into over twenty-five languages and As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow was a Governor General's Award finalist and a Yoto Carnegie Medal nominee. Zoulfa holds a degree in pharmacy and a master's in Drug Sciences. She resides in Switzerland where she lives as a Studio Ghibli protagonist who is surrounded by a never-ending stack of books that keeps growing.
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