Leilah Nadir is an Iraqi-Canadian author. The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family won the George Ryga award in 2008 and has been published in Canada, the UK, U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, and France. She has worked in London and Vancouver in the publishing industry. Since the invasion of Iraq, she has written and broadcast political commentaries for the CBC, The Globe and Mail, and The Georgia Straight, and published a feature article in Brick magazine. Nadir also writes fiction and has written a play, Heavenly Bodies. She lives in Vancouver, BC.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Leilah Nadir
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Vancouver, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More:
www.leilahnadir.com
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Leilah Nadir worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…