Zoulfa Katouh (born March 29, 1994) is a Canadian author of young adult fiction. Her debut novel, As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow, was published in 2022.[1]
Katouh was born on March 29, 1994, in Calgary, Canada, but was raised between Dubai and Switzerland, where she has completed her master's degree in drug sciences.[2] She is of Syrian descent.
Her debut novel, As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow, was the first book by a Syrian author to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She began writing it in 2017.[3] It was published in September 2022 in both the United States and the United Kingdom.[4] It was a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Awards, an annual Canadian collection of recognition of distinction in various fields. She is the winner of the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award 2023 [5] and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal (literary award), Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024.[6] Her debut novel has been translated into twenty-three languages.
