NATHAN ENGLANDER is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and the novels The Ministry of Special Cases, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, and kaddish.com. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages, and, among other prizes, he was chosen as one of Twenty Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Berlin Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. His play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at the Public Theater in 2012, and his new play, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, premiered at The Old Globe in San Diego in 2023. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives with his family in Toronto. » Full Bio
"Englander is mischievously hilarious, nightmarish, suspenseful, inquisitive, and deliriously tender in this concentrated tale of tradition and improvisation, faith and love.”
– Booklist
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”Superb: a work of psychological precision and moral force.”
– Colson Whitehead
"Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short-story art."
– Michael Chabon
"A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory, spun out with a fabulism that recalls Isaac Bashevis Singer… Masterly."
– Los Angeles Times
"Taut, edgy, sharply observed….A revelation of the human condition."
– The New York Times Book Review
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