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Cynthia Ozick


USA flag (b.1928)

Cynthia Ozick's essays, novels and short stories have won numerous prizes and awards; The Puttermesser Papers was a finalist for the National Book Award and Quarrel & Quandry was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in the New York City area.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Trust (1966)
   The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
   The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
   The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
   Heir to the Glimmering World (2004)
   The Bear Boy (2005)
   Foreign Bodies (2010)
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Collections
   The Pagan Rabbi (1971)
   Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
   Levitation (1982)
   The Shawl (1989)
   Collected Stories (2006)
   Dictation (2008)
   Antiquities and Other Stories (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Antiquities (2021)
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Cynthia Ozick recommends
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Thank You, Mr. Nixon (2022)
Gish Jen
"Gish Jen's masterly short stories are as inimitable for their voice as they are for their substance. They speak, with brio and canny wit, via the familiar colloquial of dialogue; yet stirring below this brightness are the dark currents of Chinese history under the thumb of tyranny, the Hong Kong protests, Nixon's visit to Beijing, the refuge and bewilderments of new immigrants, the entanglements of their brainy American children. If this suggests anything like political or polemical fiction, it is overridingly something else: Gish Jen's ironical and feelingful and remarkable art. Or call it an art beyond art. It is life itself."
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Moving Kings (2017)
Joshua Cohen
"Joshua Cohen’s Moving Kings is a lit fuse, a force let loose, a creeping flame heading for demolition, and Cohen himself is a fierce polyknower in command of the moving parts of the human predicament. A master of argot and wit, he writes the language of men in a staccato yet keening idiom of his own invention. And though it is set in a grungy New York, call this the first Israeli combat novel ever dared by an American writer."
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Self Portraits (2010)
Frederic Tuten
"An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned Dream!"

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Anthologies containing stories by Cynthia Ozick
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1999)
edited by
Michael Martone and Lex Williford

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1984) : The Cannibal Galaxy
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1988) : The Messiah of Stockholm
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1997) : The Puttermesser Papers
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : The Puttermesser Papers
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2012) : Foreign Bodies
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2012) : Foreign Bodies


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