Miroslav Penkov

Stork Mountain

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PRAISE FOR EAST OF THE WEST'Humour, poignancy, tenderness and a deep sense of European history suffuse these lovely stories' Sunday Telegraph'Penkov's stories combine toughness, vulnerability and bravado...he applies humour and compassion in equal measure: this is a sparkling collection.' Guardian'Every once in a while, but no more often than that, a first book by a young writer comes along to restore a reader's faith . . . Penkov's stories are ironic without being trite, melancholic, but with a whiff of whimsy . . . a considerable, quirky, new talent' Canberra Times 'Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take ch… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4736-2218-0
EAN: 9781473622180
Produktnummer: 19123793
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Masse: H14.9 cm x B22.3 cm x D4.0 cm 590 g
Gewicht: 590
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in 2001 on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing.His stories have won the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals and anthologies including Granta, The Best American Short Stories (edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor) and The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Published in more than a dozen countries, his collection East of the West was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Penkov teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is the editor-in-chief of the American Literary Review.