Jamal Ouariachi Author

Jamal Ouariachi has written four novels and a collection of short stories. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature and BNG Bank Literature Prize for his fourth novel A Hunger (2015), which has been translated into many languages. His next novels, a diptych, are forthcoming in 2020. According to Ouariachi, he grew up in an ‘extremely everyday, typically Dutch multicultural family’ and attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium until he was ‘kicked out’. He studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a therapist until the 2011, when he decided to dedicate himself full time to writing.