Nathan Thrall is an American writer living in Jerusalem. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. An international bestseller, it was translated into more than thirty languages, selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a best book of the year by over twenty publications, including The New Yorker, The Economist, and Time. Thrall is also the author of the critically acclaimed essay collection The Only Language They Understand. He was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature, and his work has been nominated for The Baillie Gifford Prize, the PEN Galbraith Award, the Ryszard Kapuscinski International Award, The Moore Prize, and The Orwell Prize. His reporting, essays, and criticism have appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College.

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