About Amina Cain
Born 1972. Amina Cain is an American writer.
Amina Cain is an American writer, best known for her 2020 novel Indelicacy.
Writing Cain began writing in her last year as an undergraduate. Cain lived in Chicago during the mid-2000s and later moved to Los Angeles, where she continues to live .
Writers who have influenced Cain's work include Lydia Davis.
Honors Indelicacy was shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and for the 2021 Folio Prize.
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American writer
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Amina Cain was born on 17 February 1972.
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Amina Cain is a writer.
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