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Helen DeWitt


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Helen DeWitt (born in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) is a novelist.

DeWitt grew up primarily in South America, as her parents worked in the United States diplomatic service. After a year at Northfield Mount Hermon School and two short periods at Smith College, DeWitt studied classics at the University of Oxford, first at Lady Margaret Hall, and then at Brasenose College for her D.Phil.
 
 
Novels
   The Last Samurai (2000)
   Lightning Rods (2002)
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Collections
   Some Trick (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Recovery (2012)
   The English Understand Wool (2022)
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Helen DeWitt recommends
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My Friend Natalia (2021)
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"I was tremendously impressed by My Friend Natalia. . . . Laura Lindstedt has a very Finnish take on sophistication (downbeat, deadpan), is disconcerting, dissonant, peerless in deferred resolution, a blithe dissolver of the regular association of ideas. Why did I not use lockdown to learn Finnish? Why?"

Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Last Samurai
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2013) : Lightning Rods


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