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Pauls Toutonghi

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"There is a tender fearlessness that runs through THE REFUGEE OCEAN, a book as unflinching in its depiction of conflict as it is anchored to

the healing power

of art."


-Omar El-Akkad

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Pauls Toutonghi was born in 1976 to an Arab father and a Latvian mother. He speaks Latvian, French, and a little Arabic.


His work has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Yemen Observer, The New York Times, Zoetrope: All-Story, Outside Magazine, One Story, Sports Illustrated, and elsewhere.


He's won a Pushcart Prize and been a Hawthornden Fellow. His four books have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, German, and Latvian. He holds a PhD in Postcolonial Lit from Cornell University, and he now teaches at

Lewis & Clark College.

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