Nathan Englander is the author of the forthcoming collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (advance praise here), as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). Translated into more than a dozen languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In 2012, along with the publication of his new collection, Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man will premiere at The Public Theater, and his translation New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) will be published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door forthcoming in March from FSG. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and Madison, Wisconsin. And, for right now, he seems to be roasting coffee for McSweeney's.  (Upcoming-Events Calendar here.) » Full Bio

The Ministry of Special Cases

"A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory, spun out with a fabulism that recalls Isaac Bashevis Singer… Masterly."
– Los Angeles Times

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

"Taut, edgy, sharply observed….A revelation of the human condition."
– The New York Times Book Review