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Click here to see what's happening in the fiction of each issue of The New Yorker.

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2012 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision
  • The Story Prize
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Teju Cole: Open City
  • Pulitzer Prize
    • Winner: No award given
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: Wieslaw Mysliwski: Stone Upon Stone
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: May 30, 2012
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: June 13, 2012
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: October
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: October
  • Giller Prize
    • Shadow Winner: Early November
    • Winner: Early November
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: November
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2011 Book Awards

  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: Attila Bartis: Tranquility
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Michael Thomas's Man Gone Down
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy”

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers).  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” was originally published in the January 16, 2012 issue of The New Yorker

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 As you can see from my complete lack of posts and commentary, I’ve still been under the work bus.  I’ll get caught up eventually — I promise!

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Paranoia”

Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers).  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “Paranoia” was first published in The New Yorker‘s February 28, 2011, issue.

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I haven’t read this story yet because I’m deeply engaged in a few other reading projects and don’t want to take the time just yet.  When I read it, hopefully soon, I will post my thoughts here, but in the meantime I’d love to see how people are responding to it.  I was so-so on Sayrafiezadeh’s last New Yorker story, “Apetite.”

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