Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Recipients
Table:
Year

Winner

Collection

Shortlisted nominees & collections

Ref(s)

2005

Yiyun Li

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

David Bezmozgis – Natasha and Other Stories

Alice Hoffman – Blackbird House

Bret Anthony Johnston – Corpus Christi

Tim Winton – The Turning

David Means – The Secret Goldfish

[5]

2006

Haruki Murakami

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Rachel Sherman – The First Hurt

Samrat Upadhyay – The Royal Ghosts

Rose Tremain – The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

Philip Ó Ceallaigh – Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse

Peter Stamm – In Strange Gardens and Other Stories

[6]

2007

Miranda July

No One Belongs Here More than You

Simon Robson – The Separate Heart and Other Stories

Olaf Olafsson – Valentines

Etger Keret – Missing Kissinger

Manuel Muñoz – The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Charlotte Grimshaw – Opportunity

[7]

2008

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

No shortlist issued.

[8]

2009

Simon Van Booy

Love Begins in Winter

Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly

Wells Tower – Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Shih-Li Kow – Ripples and Other Stories

Philip Ó Ceallaigh – The Pleasant Light of Day

Charlotte Grimshaw – Singularity

[9][10]

2010

Ron Rash

Burning Bright

T. C. Boyle – Wild Child

David Constantine – The Shieling

Robin Black – If I Loved You I Would Tell You This

Belle Boggs – Mattaponi Queen

Laura van den Berg – What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

[11]

2011

Edna O'Brien

Saints and Sinners

Yiyun Li, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Alexander MacLeod, Light Lifting

Suzanne Rivecca, Death is Not an Option

Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family

Valerie Trueblood, Marry or Burn

[12]

2012

Nathan Englander

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island

Fiona Kidman, The Trouble with Fire

Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference

Etgar Keret, Suddenly a Knock on the Door

Lucia Perillo, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain

[13][2]

2013

David Constantine

Tea at the Midland and Other Stories

Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13

Deborah Levy, Black Vodka

Joyce Carol Oates, Black Dahlia & White Rose

Peter Stamm, We're Flying

Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

[14]

2014

Colin Barrett

Young Skins

Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth

A. L. Kennedy, All the Rage

Phil Klay, Redeployment

Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea

Lorrie Moore, Bark

[15]

2015

Carys Davies

The Redemption of Galen Pike

Karen Bender, Refund

Tony Earley, Mr. Tall

Kirsty Gunn, Infidelities

Thomas McGuane, Crow Fair

Alejandro Zambra, My Documents

[16]

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Yiyun Li ( Chinese : 李翊雲 ; born November 4 , 1972 ) is a Chinese-American writer . Her short stories and novels have won several awards and distinctions , including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers . She is presently an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space .
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the debut short story collection by Yiyun Li . It is the author 's first book of fiction . Two of the stories were adapted into films : the title story and The Princess of Nebraska , both directed by Wayne Wang .
David Bezmozgis ( Latvian : Dāvids Bezmozgis ; born 1973 ) is a Latvian Canadian writer and filmmaker , currently the head of Humber College 's School for Writers .
Alice Hoffman ( born March 16 , 1952 ) is an American novelist and young-adult and children 's writer , best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic , which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name . Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic , irony , and non-standard romances and relationships .
Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author . He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection , Corpus Christi : Stories . He is also the editor of the non-fiction work , Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer . He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award .
Timothy John Winton ( born 4 August 1960 ) is an Australian writer of novels , children 's books , non-fiction books , and short stories . In 1997 he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust , and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times .
David Means ( born October 17 , 1961 ) is an American short story writer and novelist based in Nyack , New York . His stories have appeared in many publications , including Esquire , The New Yorker , and Harper 's . They are frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt , or along the Hudson River in New York .
Haruki Murakami ( 村上 春樹 , Murakami Haruki , born January 12 , 1949 ) is a Japanese writer . His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally , with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country . His work has received numerous awards , including the World Fantasy Award , the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award , the Franz Kafka Prize , and the Jerusalem Prize . Murakami 's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase ( 1982 ) , Norwegian Wood ( 1987 ) , The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( 1994-95 ) , Kafka on the Shore ( 2002 ) , and 1Q84 ( 2009-10 ) . He has also translated into Japanese works by writers including Raymond Carver and J. D. Salinger . His fiction , sometimes criticized by Japan 's literary establishment as un-Japanese , was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan . It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic , marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness he weaves into his narratives . Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as among the world 's greatest living novelists for his works and achievements .
Blind Willow , Sleeping Woman ( めくらやなぎと眠る女 , Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna ) is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami . The stories contained in the book were written between 1980 and 2005 , and published in Japan in various magazines and collections . The contents of this compilation was selected by Murakami and first published in English translation in 2006 ( its Japanese counterpart was released later in 2009 ) . Around half the stories were translated by Philip Gabriel with the other half being translated by Jay Rubin . In this collection , the stories alternate between the two translators for the most part . Murakami considers this to be his first real English-language collection of short stories since The Elephant Vanishes ( 1993 ) and considers after the quake ( 2000 ) to be more akin to a concept album , as its stories were designed to produce a cumulative effect . In the introductory notes to the English-language edition of Blind Willow , Sleeping Woman , Murakami declares , I find writing novels a challenge , writing stories a joy . If writing novels is like planting a forest , then writing short stories is more like planting a garden .
Rachel Sherman ( born 1975 ) is an American writer . She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University . Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney 's , Open City , Post Road , Conjunctions , n+1 , and Story Quarterly , among other publications , and in the book Full Frontal Fiction : The Best of Nerve Anthology . Her short story collection , The First Hurt , was released by Open City Books in April 2006 to rave reviews , culminating in the nomination for the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in Ireland .
Samrat Upadhyay ( Nepali : सम्राट उपाध्याय ) is a Nepalese writer , born in 1963 , who writes in English . Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University . He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West . He was born and raised in Kathmandu , Nepal , and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one . He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington , Indiana . In 2001 , Upadhyay won a Whiting Award for fiction . He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea , Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003 . His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal , which Upadhyay views largely through the lens of contemporary American realist fiction . According to the San Francisco Chronicle , Upadhyay is like a Buddhist Chekhov .
Dame Rose Tremain DBE FRSL ( born 2 August 1943 ) is an English novelist , short story writer , and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia .
Philip Ó Ceallaigh ( born 23 March 1968 ) is an Irish short story writer and translator living in Bucharest . Eve Patten , in The Irish Times , praised his ambitiousness with the short story shape , and his break from the grip of ingrained Irish modes . Michel Faber , in The Guardian , described his control of tone , dialogue and narrative contour as masterful . Ó Ceallaigh won the 2006 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was the first Irish writer to be shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award .
Peter Stamm ( born January 18 , 1963 in Münsterlingen ) is a Swiss writer . His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages . For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction , he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013 , and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize .
Miranda July ( born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger ; February 15 , 1974 ) is an American film director , screenwriter , singer , actress , author and artist . Her body of work includes film , fiction , monologue , digital media presentations , and live performance art . She wrote , directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know ( 2005 ) and The Future ( 2011 ) . She has authored a book of short stories , No One Belongs Here More Than You ( 2007 ) ; a collection of nonfiction short stories , It Chooses You ( 2011 ) ; and the novel The First Bad Man ( 2015 ) .
Simon Robson is a British actor , director and writer . As an actor , he has appeared in Doctors , Tom & Viv , Bodywork , Trial and Retribution and EastEnders , playing Graham Stone . Simon Robson studied Philosophy and Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and trained as an actor at RADA . He has worked extensively in the theatre , as well as appearing in Eastenders and Doctors . His first play , The Ghost Train Tattoo , was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in 2001 . Since then he has published a book of short stories , The Separate Heart ( Jonathan Cape ) , which was shortlisted for the prestigious Frank O'Connor Prize in 2007 . His first novel , Catch ( Jonathan Cape ) was published in 2010 . He wrote the libretto for the opera Schoenberg in Hollywood , with music by Tod Machover , which received its premiere with Boston Lyric opera in November 2018 .
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson ( born 26 September 1962 ) , also known as Olaf Olafsson outside of Iceland , is an Icelandic businessman and writer . He is best known for his tenure at Sony and his leadership in the creation of the PlayStation video game console .
Manuel Muñoz ( born March 4 , 1972 Dinuba , California ) is an award-winning Mexican American novelist , short story writer , and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson , Arizona .
Charlotte Grimshaw is an award-winning New Zealand novelist , columnist and reviewer who lives in Auckland . Born 14th December 1968 - aged 52 .
Nilanjana Sudeshna Jhumpa Lahiri ( born July 11 , 1967 ) is an American author known for her short stories , novels and essays in English , and , more recently , in Italian . Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award , and her first novel , The Namesake ( 2003 ) , was adapted into the popular film of the same name . Her second story collection Unaccustomed Earth ( 2008 ) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award , while her second novel , The Lowland ( 2013 ) , was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction . In these works , Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America . In 2011 , Lahiri moved to Rome , Italy and has since then published two books of essays , and has a forthcoming novel , written in Italian . She has also translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English . In 2014 , Lahiri was awarded the National Humanities Medal . She is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University .
Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri . It is her second collection of stories , following Interpreter of Maladies ( which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ) . As with much of Lahiri 's work , Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Bengali American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment . The book was Lahiri 's first # 1 on the New York Times Best-sellers list , where it debuted at the top spot .
Simon Van Booy is an Anglo-American writer , currently living in the United States . His short story collection , Love Begins in Winter , won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award .
Petina Gappah ( born 1971 ) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer . She writes in English , though she also draws on Shona , her first language . She is currently based in Berlin , where she has a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship . In 2016 , she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper .
Wells Tower ( born April 14 , 1973 ) is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction . In 2009 he published his first short story collection , Everything Ravaged , Everything Burned ( Farrar , Straus and Giroux ) to much critical acclaim . His short fiction has also been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , McSweeney 's , Vice , Harper 's Magazine , A Public Space , Fence and other periodicals .
Shih-Li Kow is a Malaysian writer born in 1968 . She holds a degree in chemical engineering , and resides in Kuala Lumpur with her son and extended family . Her book Ripples has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize in the First Book category . [ citation needed ] . Her book Ripples also appeared in the 2009 shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award .
Ron Rash ( born September 25 , 1953 ) , an American poet , short story writer and novelist , is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University .
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle , also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle ( born December 2 , 1948 ) , is an American novelist and short story writer . Since the mid-1970s , he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories . He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 , for his third novel , World 's End , which recounts 300 years in upstate New York . He was previously a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California .
David John Constantine ( born 1944 ) is a British , Salford born poet , author and translator .
Robin Black is a Canadian Mixed Martial Arts commentator , analyst and former musician .
Laura van den Berg is an American award-winning book writer .
Josephine Edna O'Brien , DBE ( born 15 December 1930 ) is an Irish novelist , memoirist , playwright , poet and short story writer . Philip Roth described her as the most gifted woman now writing in English , while the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson cited her as one of the great creative writers of her generation . O'Brien 's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women , and their problems in relating to men , and to society as a whole . Her first novel , The Country Girls ( 1960 ) , is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following World War II . The book was banned , burned and denounced from the pulpit . O'Brien received the Irish PEN Award in 2001 . Saints and Sinners won the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award , the world 's richest prize for a short story collection . Faber and Faber published her memoir , Country Girl , in 2012 . In 2015 , she was bestowed Saoi by the Aosdána . O'Brien lives in London .
Saints and Sinners is a short story collection by Edna O'Brien . Faber and Faber published it in 2011 . The collection includes the O'Brien story Sinners in which a lonely widow running an isolated rural bed and breakfast overhears the sexual antics of a man , woman and teenage girl who on arrival claim to be couple and daughter - Then came the exclamations , the three pitches of sound so different -- the woman 's loud and gloating , the girl 's , helpless , as if she were almost crying , and the man , like a jackass down the woods with his lady loves . Saints and Sinners won the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award .
Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer and professor of English , Creative Writing and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary 's University in Halifax , Nova Scotia . His debut short-story collection Light Lifting was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award . It won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award in the 2011 Atlantic Book Awards . In 2019 , he won an O. Henry Award for his short story , Lagomorph , which was first published in Granta . The son of Canadian novelist and short-story writer Alistair MacLeod and of his wife , Anita MacLellan , he was born in Inverness , Nova Scotia in 1972 and raised in Windsor , Ontario , where his father taught at the University of Windsor . He did a first graduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a PhD at McGill University in Montreal . He currently lives in Dartmouth , Nova Scotia MacLeod served as a judge for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize .
Colm Tóibín ( Irish pronunciation : [ ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ ] ; born 30 May 1955 ) is an Irish novelist , short story writer , essayist , playwright , journalist , critic , and poet . Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester . He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017 . Called a champion of minorities by Arts Council director Mary Cloake as he collected the 2011 Irish PEN Award , that same year John Naughton of The Observer included Tóibín among his list of Britain 's three hundred public figures leading our cultural discourse - despite his being Irish . [ note 1 ]
The Empty Family is a collection of short stories by Irish writer Colm Tóibín . It was published in the UK in October 2010 and was released in the US in January 2011 .
Valerie Trueblood is an American writer . Among her notable works is her debut novel Seven Loves and the short story collection Search Party : Stories of Rescue ( Counterpoint 2013 ) , a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award . Her story collection Marry or Burn ( Counterpoint 2010 ) was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. ,
Nathan Englander ( born 1970 ) is an American short story writer and novelist . His debut short story collection , For the Relief of Unbearable Urges , was published by Alfred A. Knopf , in 1999 . His second collection , What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank , won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize .
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by the American writer Nathan Englander . It was first published on February 7 , 2012 through Knopf and collects eight of Englander 's short stories , including the title story What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank . The title of the collection takes influence from Raymond Carver 's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love . It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , losing to Adam Johnson 's The Orphan Master 's Son . Englander 's collection was awarded the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award .
Kevin Barry ( born 1969 ) is an Irish writer . He is the author of two collections of short stories , and the novel City of Bohane , which was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award . His 2015 novel Beatlebone won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and is one of seven books by Irish authors nominated for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award , the world 's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English . His 2019 novel Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize .
Dark Lies the Island is the second short story collection by Irish writer Kevin Barry . His previous short story collection , There Are Little Kingdoms , won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature . It was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award . Barry also wrote the script for a film of the same title about characters in a long standing family feud in a small Irish town , it was released in October of 2019
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman DNZM OBE ( born 26 March 1940 ) is a New Zealand novelist , poet , scriptwriter and short story author .
Sarah Hall ( born 1974 in Carlisle , Cumbria ) is an English novelist , and poet . Her critically acclaimed second novel , The Electric Michelangelo , was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize . She lives in Norwich , in eastern England .
Etgar Keret ( Hebrew : אתגר קרת , born August 20 , 1967 ) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories , graphic novels , and scriptwriting for film and television .
Lucia Maria Perillo ( September 30 , 1958 - October 16 , 2016 ) was an American poet . In 2000 , Perillo was recognized with a genius grant as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program .
Tamas Dobozy ( born 26 August 1969 ) is a Canadian writer and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University .
Deborah Levy FRSL ( born 6 August 1959 ) is a British novelist , playwright and poet . She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre - her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company - before focusing on prose fiction . Her early novels included Beautiful Mutants , Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl . Her more recent fiction has included the Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk , as well as the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything and the short story collection Black Vodka .
Joyce Carol Oates ( born June 16 , 1938 ) is an American writer . Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels , as well as a number of plays and novellas , and many volumes of short stories , poetry , and nonfiction . She has won many awards for her writing , including the National Book Award , for her novel them ( 1969 ) , two O. Henry Awards , the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize ( 2019 ) . Her novels Black Water ( 1992 ) , What I Lived For ( 1994 ) , and Blonde ( 2000 ) and short story collections The Wheel of Love ( 1970 ) and Lovely , Dark , Deep : Stories ( 2014 ) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize . Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing . She is a visiting professor at the University of California , Berkeley where she teaches short fiction .
Claire Vaye Watkins ( born April 9 , 1984 ) is an American author and academic . Her book of short stories Battleborn ( Riverhead Books , 2012 ) , won The Story Prize , among other awards . In 2012 the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree . Of her parents ' influence on her award-winning collection , Watkins has said , My fathers story is more in the collective subconscious but my moms is closer to the project . In 2014 Watkins was the recipient of the Guggenheim Award . Her debut novel , Gold Fame Citrus , was published in 2015 . Watkins currently teaches creative writing at Bennington College .
Battleborn ( 2012 ) is a short story collection by American author Claire Vaye Watkins .
Alison Louise Kennedy ( born 22 October 1965 ) is a Scottish writer , academic and stand-up comedian . She writes novels , short stories and non-fiction and is known for her dark tone , blending of realism and fantasy , and for her serious approach to her work . [ clarification needed ] She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers . [ example needed ]
Phil Klay ( /ˈklaɪ/ ; born 1983 ) is an American writer . He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication , a collection of short stories , Redeployment . In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree . He was a United States Marine officer from 2005 to 2009 .
Redeployment is a collection of short stories by American writer Phil Klay . His first published book , it won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle 's 2014 John Leonard Award given for a best first book in any genre .
Ben Marcus ( born October 11th , 1967 ) is an American author and professor at Columbia University . He has written four books of fiction . His stories , essays , and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper 's , The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Granta , The New York Times , GQ , Salon , McSweeney 's , Time , and Conjunctions . He is also the fiction editor of The American Reader . His latest book , Notes From The Fog : Stories , was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018 .
Lorrie Moore ( born Marie Lorena Moore ; January 13 , 1957 ) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories .
Karen E. Bender is an American novelist .
Tony Earley ( born 1961 ) is an American novelist and short story writer . He was born in San Antonio , Texas , but grew up in North Carolina . His stories are often set in North Carolina . Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after graduation in 1983 , he spent four years as a reporter in North Carolina , first as a general assignment reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal in Columbus , and then as sports editor and feature writer at The Daily Courier in Forest City . Later he attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa , where he received an MFA in creative writing . He quickly found success writing short stories , first with smaller literary magazines , then with Harper 's , which published two of his stories : Charlotte in 1992 and The Prophet From Jupiter in 1993 . The latter story helped Harper 's win a National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994 . In 1996 , Earley 's short stories earned him a place on Granta 's list of the 20 Best Young American Novelists , and shortly after that announcement , The New Yorker featured him in an issue that focused on the best new novelists in America . He has twice been included in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology . His writing style has been compared by critics to writers as distant as a young Ernest Hemingway and E. B . White . One of his favorite writers is Willa Cather .
Kirsty Gunn ( born 1960 , New Zealand ) is a novelist and writer of short stories . Her stories include Rain , which led to the 2001 film of the same name , directed by Christine Jeffs and also the 2001 ballet by the Rosas Company , set to Music for Eighteen Musicians a 1976 score by Steve Reich . Her novel The Boy and the Sea won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award in 2007 . Her 2012 novel The Big Music won the Book of the Year in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards . The novel took seven years to write , and was inspired by pibroch , the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe . She is professor of writing practice at the University of Dundee .
Thomas Francis McGuane III ( born December 11 , 1939 ) is an American writer . His work includes ten novels , short fiction and screenplays , as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters , National Cutting Horse Association Members Hall of Fame and the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame . McGuane 's early novels were noted for a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors , multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s . His later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West , primarily Montana , where he has made his home since 1968 , and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set . He has three children , Annie , Maggie and Thomas .
Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas ( Santiago , Chile , b. September 24 , 1975 ) is a Chilean poet , short story writer and novelist . He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer , chosen in 2007 as one of the Bogotá39 ( the best Latin American writers under the age of 39 ) and in 2010 by Granta as one of the best Spanish writers under the age of 35 .