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Adiba Jaigirdar
Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi-Irish writer born in Dhaka who moved between Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh as a child before her family immigrated to Tullamore, Ireland, when she was ten; she has lived in the Dublin area since. She holds a BA in English and history from University College Dublin and an MA in postcolonial studies from the University of Kent, and is queer and Muslim. Her debut, The Henna Wars, follows a Bangladeshi teenager coming out as a lesbian in Dublin and was named to Time's...