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.
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.
Awards: PEN (2000) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller
Novels
Collections
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999)
Suddenly, a Knock at the Door (2012) (with Etgar Keret)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012)
Suddenly, a Knock at the Door (2012) (with Etgar Keret)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012)
Novellas and Short Stories
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: A Short Story (2007)
The Gilgul of Park Avenue (2007)
Peep Show (2015)
The Gilgul of Park Avenue (2007)
Peep Show (2015)
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Books containing stories by Nathan Englander

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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