Jennifer Steil
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Jennifer Steil is an award-winning author who lives in Uzbekistan, England, and France. Her recent novel, Exile Music, explores an overlooked slice of World War II history, following Jewish musicians who flee Vienna in 1939 to seek refuge in the Bolivian Andes. It won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards; the Multicultural and Historical novel International Book Awards; and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award, the Bisexual Book Award, and the Annie Award. The Jerusalem Post called it “one of the best novels I have read in a long time,” and the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle wrote, “In a sea of Holocaust literature, ‘Exile Music’ stands out as wholly original and engaging.” Her previous novel, The Ambassador’s Wife, inspired by her own kidnapping experience in Yemen, won the the 2013 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Best Novel award, the 2016 Phillip McMath Post Publication book award, and was a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award and the Lascaux Novel Award. She is also the author of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, a memoir about her tenure as editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Sana’a, Yemen.
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