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Mosab Abu Toha, author portrait
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Mosab Abu Toha

MOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet, shortstory writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collectionof poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and won a Palestine Book Award, an American Book Award, and the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Abu Toha is also the founder ofthe Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press ClubAward and a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for hisessays on Gaza in The New Yorker.
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Announcing Penguin Random House’s 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners 🥇

On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters. To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize

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