Inaam Kachachi

About The Author

Born in Baghdad, Inaam Kachachi currently lives in Paris. She has a PhD in journalism and two previously published nonfiction titles: Iraqis Speak: The Iraqi Drama in Women's Writing (2003) and a biography of the English painter Lorna Hailes (1997). Her novel The Outcast was shortlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Books by Inaam Kachachi

The American Granddaughter
Translated by Nariman Yousif
"We let ourselves be won over by this novel that describes with such faithfulness and emotion the tearing apart of a country and a woman forever caught between two shores." —Le Monde "Full of poetry and freshness…" —Guide de la rentree litteraire, Lire/Virgin
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