Keija parssinen biography

  • Keija Parssinen was born in Saudi Arabia, and spent twelve years there before her family moved to Austin Texas.
  • Keija was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for twelve years before her family moved to Austin, Texas.
  • Keija Parssinen was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for twelve years before her family moved to Austin.

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    Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher


    Kejia Parssinen played basketball competitively throughout middle and high school. In many ways, her new novel The Unraveling of Mercy Louis (Harper, 2015) is a tribute to all the girls she met on that journey: her coaches, the ones on her team, and the few Mercys she played against, the ferocious girls who left her awe-struck as they lit up the scoreboard, as they owned the court, the day, the season, the town. We corresponded with her during her recent Texas book tour.

    LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: Welcome back to Texas. What’s it like to set foot on Lone Star soil again?

    KEJIA PARSSINEN: It’s always wonderful to be home. I love waking up in my mother’s house, in the neighborhood where I grew up. The sun rising over the hills, the early morning mist in the live oaks, the mourning doves calling—these things are so familiar and comforting to me. I was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there until I was twelve, when

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    Keija Parssinen is the author of the novel "The Ruins of Us," which was published in the US (HarperCollins), UK (Faber& Faber), Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Italy (Newton Compton Editori) and around the Middle East. The novel earned a Michener-Copernicus award, was long-listed for the Chautauqua Prize, was chosen as Book of the Month by National Geographic Traveler, and was selected as a Best Book of the Middle East Region 2013 by Turkey’s Today’s Zaman newspaper. In fall 2019, it was published in Arabic by the Syrian Ministry of Culture. Her second novel, "The Unraveling of Mercy Louis," won an Alex Award from the American Library Association, was chosen as Book of the Month by Emily St. John Mandel, and was selected as a Best Book of the Year by the Kansas City Star, Lone Star Literary Life, Missouri Life and Vox Magazine.

    Her short fiction, essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Review of B

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    Keija Parssinen author biography, plus links to books bygd Keija Parssinen.

    Keija Parssinen

    Keija Parssinen is the author of The Ruins of Us, which won a Michener-Copernicus Award. Raised in Saudi Arabia and Texas, she is a graduate of Princeton University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. Parssinen directs the Quarry Heights Writers' Workshop and lives in Missouri with her husband and son.

    This biography was last updated on 03/10/2015.

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