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Jamil Jan Kochai

Jamil Jan Kochai
Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and . Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Hi new collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is available now.


How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife
July 20, 2022  By Jamil Jan Kochai
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What Do I Risk Losing By Writing Down My Family’s Stories in English?

Jamil Jan Kochai on Traditions of Afghan Oral Storytelling
January 7, 2019  By Jamil Jan Kochai
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