Jamaluddin Aram is an Afghan-Canadian writer. Aram’s works have appeared in Numero Cinq, The New Quarterly and The Globe and Mail among others. His short story “This Hard Easy Life” was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award in 2020. His debut novel, Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday, won the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Literary Fiction. Aram is the associate producer of the Oscar nominated film Buzkashi Boys. He lives in Toronto. 

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