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Sylvia Khoury

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Sylvia Khoury
EducationColumbia University (BA)
The New School (MFA)
Mount Sinai Medical Center (MD)
Notable awardsWhiting Award (2021)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist (2022)

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

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  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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