AJ Lewis
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AJ Lewis

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Literature & Fiction
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While the Italian of my father’s family settled like sauce over meatballs, I always knew that words would enrich and transport me, and they did. All over the world. Through my travels I acquired several languages, and words became a bridge joining the most disparate of worlds and cultures. Born and educated in New England, I left the United States for North Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent where I studied, acquired some languages, and raised a family while a teacher, a headmaster, a university lecturer, and an advisor to government and multinational institutions. The aim of my fiction is to describe the world, not to inform it, and the code I write by was articulated elegantly by D. L. Doctorow: "Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction." I spoke at the annual conference of the Historical Novel Society in May of 2019 in Washington, DC on the subject of Algiers under the Turkish Regency, titled: “Ruling the Waves in North Africa or Waving the Rules: the Ottoman States 1510-1830.” My fiction has been published, under another name, in literary journals, including apt (uncapitalized) Literary and Right Hand Pointing. One of my stories was selected as a finalist for the 2017 Orison Anthology Award in Fiction. Another, ‘Doing Timeline,’ was selected for publication in the special issue of Barzakh Magazine about Incarceration. The story was also shortlisted in the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. The first chapter of the then unpublished novel, **A Captive in Algiers**, appeared in the Write Launch Journal in January of 2019. As unpublished novels, four of the Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries have won Gold or Silver at the Royal Palms Literary Awards of the Florida Writers Association. As a translator, I am most pleased with my English translation of The Destitute by Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafi.
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