Sylvia Khoury is an American writer and playwright.[1]

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

  1. ^ "Sylvia Khoury – Dramatists Guild Foundation".
  2. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  3. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 30 September 2008 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  4. ^ a b "Finalist: Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khoury". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Whiting Awards 2021 Archives". The Paris Review. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. May 9, 2022.
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