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Farah Ahmedi published her first book when she was a junior in high school. She lives outside of Chicago.
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This interview is reproduced with the kind permission of Doris Booth of Authorlink.com. It took place before Farah was announced as the overall winner of the contest.
Everyone has a story to tell, but few have the resources and connections to
find a publisher and an audience. For the three lucky finalists of The Story of
My Life contest, however, their stories are being publicized nationwide as Simon
Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, teams up with ABC-TV's
Good Morning America to discover a first-time author of a compelling American
memoir.
Three finalists have been chosen from among 5,000 essay entries and have
appeared on ABC-TV's Good Morning America and 20/20. They are Betty Ferguson, a
mother who forgave her daughter's killer; Mercedes Florencia Brudnicki, a sister
whose brother was trapped in Castro's Cuba; and Farah Ahmedi, an Afghan girl who
lost her leg to a landmine. The American public voted and chose Farah's story.
Farah Ahmedi, a 17-year-old girl whose childhood in Afghanistan was
filled with horror and sadness. What she endures in her war-torn homeland and
how she escapes is tragic, yet ultimately hopeful. Her father and sisters...
Since the publication of her debut work Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994, Edwidge Danticat has won praise as one of America's brightest, most graceful and vibrant young writers. In this novel, and in her National Book ... (more)
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1970, the Foreign Ministry ... (more)
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