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Ben Lerner


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Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.
 

Awards: LA Times (2019)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Leaving the Atocha Station (2011)
   10:04 (2014)
   The Topeka School (2019)
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Collections
   The Lichtenberg Figures (poems) (2004)
   Angle of Yaw (poems) (2006)
   Mean Free Path (poems) (2010)
   No Art (poems) (2016)
   The Lights (poems) (2023)
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Awards
2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : The Topeka School
2017 Granta Best of Young American Novelists

Award nominations
2020 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Topeka School
2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Topeka School
2020 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : The Topeka School
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Topeka School
2015 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : 10:04
2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Leaving the Atocha Station
2011 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (nominee) : Leaving the Atocha Station


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Weather (2020)
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"Jenny Offill writes beautiful sentences; she is also a deft curator of silences. It's this counterpoint of eloquence and felt absence that enables her to register the emotional and political weather of our present."

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