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  <name><![CDATA[Masha Hamilton]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Masha Hamilton is the author of three novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps, (2001) a Booksense pick by independent booksellers and a Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; The Distance Between Us, (2004) named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, and The Camel Bookmobile, (2007) also a Booksense pick.

She worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press for five years in the Middle East, where she covered the intefadeh, the peace process and the partial Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Then she spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a newspaper column, “Postcard from Moscow,” and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. She reported from Afghanistan in 2004 and in 2006, she traveled in Kenya to research The Camel Bookmobile and to interview street kids in Nairobi and drought and famine victims in the isolated northeast.

A Brown University graduate, she has been awarded fiction fellowships from Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She teaches for Gotham Writers’ Workshop and has also taught at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. She is a licensed shiatsu practitioner and is currently studying nuad phaen boran, Thai traditional massage. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
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  <title><![CDATA[Zeit, die uns bleibt]]></title>
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