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Philip Roth

(Philip Milton Roth)
USA  (1933 - )
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About Philip Roth
In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years "for the entire work of the recipient."
 
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Non fiction
Reading Myself and OthersThe Facts: A Novelist's AutobiographyShop Talk: A Writer And His Colleagues And Their Work
 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Collection winner (1960) : Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (1994) : Operation Shylock: A Confession
National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (1995) : Sabbath's Theater
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (1998) : American Pastoral
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (2001) : The Human Stain
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (2007) : Everyman


Philip Roth recommends
If Not Now, When?
If Not Now, When? (1982)
Primo Levi
"One of the century's truly necessary books."
Liars and Saints
Liars and Saints (2003)
Maile Meloy
"Quiet, unastonished precision … an impressive achievement. "



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