Biography on naomi shihab nye

American writer

Naomi Shihab Nye (Arabic: نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is an Arab Americanpoet, editor, songwriter, and novelist.

Biography on naomi shihab nye

Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total, she has published or contributed to over 30 volumes of poetry. Her works include poetry, young-adult fiction, picture books, and novels.^[1] Nye received the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in honor of her entire body of work as a writer,^[2] and in 2019 the Poetry Foundation designated her the Young People's Poet Laureate for the 2019–21 term.^[3]

Early life

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and songwriter born in 1952 to a Palestinian father, Aziz Shihab, who worked as a journalist, editor and writer, and American mother, Miriam Allwardt Shihab, an artist who worked as a Montessori school teacher.^[4] Her father grew up in Palestine.

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