Nell Freudenberger

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Nell Freudenberger
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Freudenberger in 2019
Born (1975-05-21) May 21, 1975 (age 48)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short-story writer
  • essayist
Alma mater Harvard University (BA), New York University (MFA)
Notable awards
Website
nellfreudenberger.net

Nell Freudenberger (born April 21, 1975 in New York City) is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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Education

Freudenberger graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts [1] and received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. [2]

Career

Fiction

Freudenberger's fiction has appeared in Granta , The Paris Review and The New Yorker . [3] [4] After her collection Lucky Girls was published in 2003, she received the PEN/Malamud Award, a short story prize sponsored by PEN International. When Freudenberger's novel The Dissident appeared in 2006, she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction.

In June 2010, Freudenberger was featured along with fellow writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karen Russell, ZZ Packer, and Gary Shteyngart in The New Yorker's "20 Under 40 Fiction" issue. Per the magazine, these authors represented "Twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction." [5] The list received widespread media attention. [6] [7] She had a MacDowell Fellowship in 2001, 2002, and 2023.

Journalism

Freudenberger's travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, Salon, The New Yorker, and The Telegraph Magazine . She has written book reviews for The New York Times , The New Yorker, Vogue and The Nation . [8]

Personal life

Freudenberger is married and has two children. The family lives in Brooklyn. [9]

Awards

Works

Books

Short stories and essays

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