Naeem Murr
United KingdomAbout
Naeem Murr is a British-born novelist and short-story writer of Palestinian and Irish descent. Born in London in 1965, he moved to the United States in his twenties and has since developed a distinctive literary voice known for its psychological depth, dark humour, and exploration of complicated human relationships. He is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has received numerous honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His debut novel, The Boy (1998), was named a New York Times Notable Book, while The Perfect Man (2007) received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Europe and South Asia region and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. After a lengthy publishing hiatus, Murr returned with Every Exit Brings You Home (2026), a novel that draws on his Palestinian heritage to explore exile, identity, love, and the enduring consequences of war. He lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University.
