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Michael Arditti


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Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents - Pagan's Father in the USA (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011) and The Breath of Night (2013). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003, and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.
 

Genres: Inspirational, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Celibate (1993)
   Pagan and Her Parents (1996)
     aka Pagan's Father
   Easter (2000)
   Unity (2005)
   A Sea Change (2006)
   The Enemy of the Good (2009)
   Jubilate (2011)
   The Breath of Night (2013)
   Widows and Orphans (2015)
   Of Men and Angels (2018)
   The Anointed (2020)
   The Young Pretender (2022)
   The Choice (2023)
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Collections
   Good Clean Fun (2004)
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Michael Arditti recommends
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The Prison Minyan (2021)
Jonathan Stone
"Erudite, trenchant and touching, with a premise that the young Philip Roth would have envied."
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The Hopkins Conundrum (2017)
Simon Edge
"A splendid mix of literary detection, historical description and contemporary romance."
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This Breathing World (2007)
José Luis de Juan
"John Updike meets Marguerite Yourcenar in a bold and multi-layered tale of romantic literati and literary romance."

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Anthologies containing stories by Michael Arditti
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When It Changed (2009)
Science Into Fiction
(Science-Into-Fiction)
edited by
Geoff Ryman

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