Randa Abdel-Fattah Official Website

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Randa Abdel-Fattah is the award-winning author of young adult novels Does My Head Look Big in This, Ten Things I Hate About Me and Where The Streets Had A Name. She is 29 and has her own identity hyphens to contend with (Australian-born-Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-choc-a-holic).

Randa works as a lawyer and lives in Sydney with her husband, Ibrahim, and their two children. Her books are published around the world. Randa is also a member of the Coalition for Peace and Justice in Palestine. She writes on a freelance basis for The Age and has appeared on television programs such as the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club, ABC’s Q and A and SBS’ Insight.

Randa Abdel-Fattah's Favourite Quote:

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811

News Flash:

Where the streets Had a Name has just been short-listed for the 2010 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL AWARDS FOR LITERATURE. For more details click here.

Ten Things I Hate About Me was selected, by a joint committee of America's Children's Book Council and the National Council for the Social Studies, as a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2010.

Where The Streets Had A Name has won the Golden Inkys award! The Inkys are Australia’s only teen choice book awards, reflecting what teenagers want to read rather than what they are told to read. The Inky Awards were created by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature to encourage reading for pleasure amongst teenagers. http://www.insideadog.com.au

Where The Streets Had A Name has just been selected as a Notable Book by the children's book council!

Does My Head Look Big In This by Randa Abdel Fattah

Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel Fattah

Where The Streets Had A Name by Randa Abdel Fattah

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