Name: Jamil Kochai

Recipient Year: 2015|2018|2017

Description: Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

School Name: UC Davis

Major: MFA

Sponsor: South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA) Scholarship|Mateen Mobeen Foundation Scholarship|Deah Yusor Razan Scholarship (An initiative of Our Three Winners Endowment)