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Taran Khan

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Taran N. Khan is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, LitHub, Guernica, Al Jazeera, the Caravan and Himal Southasian among others. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Jan Michalski Foundation and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. From 2006 to 2013, Khan spent long periods living and working in Kabul. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction.