Congratulations to Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher, winner of the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for writing with her debut book 'The Coin'.

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Yasmin Zaher: Palestinian writer wins Dylan Thomas prize

Yasmin Zaher wins the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for her debut novel The Coin.

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[...] ​The Coin‘s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start.

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The Coin | Yasmin Zaher | London Review Bookshop

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin…

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