Sylvia Khoury is an American writer and playwright.[1]
Sylvia Khoury | |
|---|---|
| Education | Columbia University (BA) The New School (MFA) Mount Sinai Medical Center (MD) |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2021) Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist (2022) |
She was born in New York and has French and Lebanese ancestry. She was educated at Columbia University (BA) and The New School for Drama (MFA),[2][3] and in 2021 gained an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[4]
Khoury was the recipient of the 2021 Whiting Award for drama.[5] Her play Selling Kabul is a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama.[6] Her other plays include Power Strip, Against the Hillside and The Place Women Go.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Sylvia Khoury – Dramatists Guild Foundation".
- ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 30 September 2008 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ^ a b "Finalist: Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khoury". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Whiting Awards 2021 Archives". The Paris Review. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. May 9, 2022.