Name: Jamil Kochai

Recipient Year: 2015|2017|2018

Description: Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

School Name: University of Iowa

Major: MFA

Sponsor: Deah Yusor Razan Scholarship (An initiative of Our Three Winners Endowment)|Mateen Mobeen Foundation Scholarship|South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA) Scholarship