Randa Abdel-Fattah is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Randa Abdel-Fattah as contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults.
Randa Abdel-Fattah was born at Sydney in 1980. Her recorded nationality is Australia. She was educated at Melbourne Law School.
Contemporary publishing is global and fast, with translation, festivals and prizes doing much of the work that critics once did.
She worked as writer, poet lawyer and lawyer.
The writing is recorded in English.
Her best-known work is Does My Head Look Big in This?. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from Australia matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Randa Abdel-Fattah is still writing, and the shape of the body of work is not yet settled.
Achievements
- Notable work: Does My Head Look Big in This?
