Nathan Englander, author portrait
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Nathan Englander

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 and Dinner at the Center of the Earth. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. His play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, premiered at the Public Theater in 2012. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Peep Show
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
The Ministry of Special Cases
The Twenty-seventh Man
The Tumblers
Reunion
The Wig
The Gilgul of Park Avenue
Reb Kringle
The Last One Way
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)
In This Way We Are Wise
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Books

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Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Peep Show
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
The Ministry of Special Cases
The Twenty-seventh Man
The Tumblers
Reunion
The Wig
The Gilgul of Park Avenue
Reb Kringle
The Last One Way
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)
In This Way We Are Wise
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Books for Jewish American Heritage Month

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