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Nathan Englander


USA flag (b.1970)

Nathan Englanders short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize.

Englanders story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Knopf, 1999), became an international bestseller, and earned him a PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Englander was selected as one of "20 Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker. He was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2004, he was a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller
 
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022)
Coco Mellors
"An irresistible, un-put-downable, page-turner of a novel. A love letter to New York, a love letter to love, Cleopatra and Frankenstein is a complex, funny, deeply-felt, beautifully written debut."
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Skinship (2021)
Yoon Choi
"A debut story collection that introduces us to a master of the form. Skinship, and the intricate, lovingly rendered characters in it, will stay with me forever. Yoon Choi has a fan for life."
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Objects of Desire (2021)
Clare Sestanovich
"Clare Sestanovich is a gifted observer and writes a sentence sharp enough to cut yourself on . . . A magnificent debut."

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Anthologies containing stories by Nathan Englander
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

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Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2013) : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank


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