# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randa-jarrar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:16:18.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randa-jarrar"
name: "Randa Jarrar"
slug: "randa-jarrar"
description: "Randa Jarrar, also known as Ra Jarrar, is an American writer and translator. Her first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Since then she has published short stories, essays, the collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and the memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021)."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Randa_Jarrar_at_the_2025_Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe-05_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.62
  momentum:             0.8054226475279106
  historical:           7.682470666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11546840/"
    handle:    "nm11546840"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "رندا جرار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رندا جرار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Jarrar"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Jarrar"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Jarrar"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Jarrar"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randa_Jarrar"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4956404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3549481"
    title: "Randa Jarrar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump